How do I set up cljsbuild to move non-compiled files into a specific folder?

Question

My Clojurescript project is starts with three files -- an index.html, a css file, the hand-written .cljs code.

When cljsbuild builds the .cljs file into a .js file, it puts it in an arbitrary location. I'd like to also move the index.html and css files there too.

The reason I want this is so I can have multiple profiles, and easily load both. I have a dev profile where the javascript isn't optimized, and a release profile that does optimize javascript. But switching between them is annoying -- I have to somehow take the single existing index.html file and change the javascript file it's pointing at. (If I have two index.html files, each pointing to a different javascript file, making a change to one html file means duplicating the change in the other)

I'd rather have two builds:

dev build builds to project/dev .

release build builds to project/release .

Both builds would have index.html , style.css , and compiled.js files. Is there any way to make this happen?

Answer 1

For doing that I think you are going to need additional tooling to your project.

Frontend tooling is a tough world with lots of alternatives and workflows each with their tradeoffs.

The simplest way would be having a makefile and invoke it when you want HTML and CSS copied/compiled. That should get you started but it is hard to get working on Windows.

For a established cross platform solution I'd look into integrating grunt to the workflow. With grunt you can easily have a file watcher copy/compile your HTML and CSS to your folders and even have the files minified/linted. The tradeoff is a steeper learning curve and initial setup of the project.

There are lots of options but not any cljs specific tooling that I know of.