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Working with the stack assets¶

The cozy-stack has some assets: templates, CSS, JS, fonts, etc. For the deployment in production, they are bundler in the go code and compiled to the binary. But, it’s also nice for developers to have them in a readable format with a git history: they are also put in the assets directory, and some of them are downloaded from other repositories and listed in assets/.externals.

How to work on them on local?¶

In short:

$ scripts/build.sh debug-assets
$ go run . serve --assets debug-assets/

The first command creates a debug-assets directory, with symlinks for local assets. It also downloads the external assets. The second command starts the cozy-stack with those assets. If you modify one of the assets (local or externals) and reload the page in your browser, you will see the new version.

Tip: if you are debugging an external asset, you may find it practical to replace the file in debug-assets by a symlink from where you build this asset. For example:

$ rm debug-assets/css/cozy-ui.min.css
$ ln -s path/to/cozy-ui/dist/cozy-ui.min.css debug/assets/css/cozy-ui.min.css

/dev route¶

In development mode, a /dev route is available to render a template or a mail with given parameter. For example:

http://cozy.tools:8080/dev/templates/error.html?Error=oops
http://cozy.tools:8080/dev/mails/two_factor?TwoFactorPasscode=123456

In production¶

The script scripts/build.sh assets download the externals assets, and transform all the assets (local and externals) to go code. This command is used by the maintainers of cozy-stack, so you should not have to worry about that ;-)

Locales¶

The locales are managed on transifex. The .po files are put in assets/locales. The source (english) is kept in the git repository, and is used to push the new translations to transifex. The other locales are pulled from transifex to the assets directory while building the go code.

Contexts¶

It’s possible to overload some assets on a context with the cozy-stack config insert-asset command. See its manpage and Customizing a context for more details.