Introducing AsseticAsset Management for PHP 5.3

Kris Wallsmith (OpenSky)July 29, 2011

@kriswallsmith

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• Author of Assetic

• 10+ years experience with PHP and web development

• Open source evangelist and international speaker

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• PHP 5.3 + Symfony2

• MongoDB + Doctrine MongoDB ODM

• MySQL + Doctrine2 ORM

• Less CSS

• jQuery

We all want to be FAST

We use good open source tools that encourage best practices

Best practices like…

• Dependency injection (DI)

• Proper caching, edge side includes (ESI)

• Test-driven development (TDD)

• Don't repeat yourself (DRY)

• Keep it simple, SVP (KISS)

• Performance

If you haven’t optimized your frontend, you haven’t optimized

Get your assets in line.

A poorly optimized frontendcan destroy UX

…and SEO!

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html

Asset Management

Lots of awesome tools:

Lots of awesome tools:• CoffeeScript

• Compass Framework

• CSSEmbed

• Google Closure Compiler

• jpegoptim

• JSMin

• LESS

• OptiPNG

• Packager

• SASS & SCSS

• Sprockets

• Stylus

• YUI Compressor

Integrating these tools cleanlyis a difficult problem

Assetic makes it easy

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No B.S.

Enough talk

# /path/to/web/js/core.php

$core = new FileAsset('/path/to/jquery.js');$core->load();

header('Content-Type: text/javascript');echo $core->dump();

# /path/to/web/js/core.php

$core = new AssetCollection(array( new FileAsset('/path/to/jquery.js'), new GlobAsset('/path/to/js/core/*.js'),));$core->load();

header('Content-Type: text/javascript');echo $core->dump();

# /path/to/web/js/core.php

$core = new AssetCollection(array( new FileAsset('/path/to/jquery.js'), new GlobAsset('/path/to/js/core/*.js'),));$core->load();

header('Content-Type: text/javascript');echo $core->dump();

Merge many files into one == fewer HTTP requests

# /path/to/web/js/core.php

$core = new AssetCollection(array( new FileAsset('/path/to/jquery.js'), new GlobAsset('/path/to/js/core/*.js'),), array( new YuiCompressorJsFilter('/path/to/yui.jar'),));$core->load();

header('Content-Type: text/javascript');echo $core->dump();

# /path/to/web/js/core.php

$core = new AssetCollection(array( new FileAsset('/path/to/jquery.js'), new GlobAsset('/path/to/js/core/*.js'),), array( new YuiCompressorJsFilter('/path/to/yui.jar'),));$core->load();

header('Content-Type: text/javascript');echo $core->dump();

Compress the merged asset == less data over the wire

<script src="js/core.php"></script>

Assetic isAssets & Filters

Inspired by Python’s webassets

https://github.com/miracle2k/webassets

Assets have lazy, mutable content

A filter acts on an asset’s contents during “load” and “dump”

Assets can be gathered in collections

A collection is an asset

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Asset

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# /path/to/web/css/styles.php

$styles = new FileAsset('/path/to/main.sass', array( new SassFilter(),));

header('Content-Type: text/css');echo $styles->dump();

# /path/to/web/css/styles.php

$styles = new AssetCollection(array( new FileAsset('/path/to/main.sass', array( new SassFilter(), )), new FileAsset('/path/to/more.css'),));

header('Content-Type: text/css');echo $styles->dump();

# /path/to/web/css/styles.php

$styles = new AssetCollection(array( new FileAsset('/path/to/main.sass', array( new SassFilter(), )), new FileAsset('/path/to/more.css'),), array( new YuiCompressorCss('/path/to/yui.jar'),));

header('Content-Type: text/css');echo $styles->dump();

# /path/to/web/css/styles.php

$styles = new AssetCollection(array( new FileAsset('/path/to/main.sass', array( new SassFilter(), )), new FileAsset('/path/to/more.css'),), array( new YuiCompressorCss('/path/to/yui.jar'),));

header('Content-Type: text/css');echo $styles->dump();

Lazy! The filesystem isn't touched until now

Basic Asset Classes

• AssetCollection

• AssetReference

• FileAsset

• GlobAsset

• HttpAsset

• StringAsset

Core Filter Classes• CoffeeScriptFilter

• CompassFilter

• CssEmbedFilter

• CssImportFilter

• CssMinFilter

• CssRewriteFilter

• GoogleClosure\CompilerApiFilter

• GoogleClosure\CompilerJarFilter

• JpegoptimFilter

• JpegtranFilter

• LessFilter

• LessphpFilter

• OptiPngFilter

• PackagerFilter

Core Filter Classes• PngoutFilter

• Sass\SassFilter

• Sass\ScssFilter

• SprocketsFilter

• StylusFilter

• Yui\CssCompressorFilter

• Yui\JsCompressorFilter

• More to come…

Asset Manager

$am = new AssetManager();$am->set('jquery', new FileAsset('/path/to/jquery.js'));

$plugin = new AssetCollection(array( new AssetReference($am, 'jquery'), new FileAsset('/path/to/jquery.plugin.js'),));

$core = new AssetCollection(array( $jquery, $plugin1, $plugin2,));

header('text/javascript');echo $core->dump();

$core = new AssetCollection(array( $jquery, $plugin1, $plugin2,));

header('text/javascript');echo $core->dump();

jQuery will only be included once

Filter Manager

$yui = new YuiCompressorJs();$yui->setNomunge(true);

$fm = new FilterManager();$fm->set('yui_js', $yui);

$jquery = new FileAsset('/path/to/core.js');$jquery->ensureFilter($fm->get('yui_js'));

$core = new AssetCollection(array( $jquery, new GlobAsset('/path/to/js/core/*.js'),));$core->ensureFilter($fm->get('yui_js'));

$jquery = new FileAsset('/path/to/core.js');$jquery->ensureFilter($fm->get('yui_js'));

$core = new AssetCollection(array( $jquery, new GlobAsset('/path/to/js/core/*.js'),));$core->ensureFilter($fm->get('yui_js'));

jQuery will only be compressed once

Asset Factory

$fm = new FilterManager();$fm->set('coffee', new CoffeeScriptFilter());$fm->set('closure', new ClosureFilter());

$factory = new AssetFactory('/path/to/web');$factory->setFilterManager($fm);

$asset = $factory->createAsset( array('js/src/*.coffee'), array('coffee', 'closure'));

header('Content-Type: text/javascript');echo $asset->dump();

Debug Mode

Debugging compressedJavascript sucks

Mark filters for omissionin debug mode using a “?”

// new AssetFactory('/path/to/web', $debug = true);

$asset = $factory->createAsset( array('js/src/*.coffee'), array('coffee', 'closure'));

header('Content-Type: text/javascript');echo $asset->dump();

// new AssetFactory('/path/to/web', true);

$asset = $factory->createAsset( array('js/src/*.coffee'), array('coffee', '?closure'));

header('Content-Type: text/javascript');echo $asset->dump();

// new AssetFactory('/path/to/web', false);

$asset = $factory->createAsset( array('js/src/*.coffee'), array('coffee', '?closure'), array('debug' => true));

header('Content-Type: text/javascript');echo $asset->dump();

Good: Basic Caching

# /path/to/web/css/styles.php

$styles = new AssetCollection( array(new FileAsset('/path/to/main.sass')), array(new SassFilter()));

echo $styles->dump();

# /path/to/web/css/styles.php

$styles = new AssetCache(new AssetCollection( array(new FileAsset('/path/to/main.sass')), array(new SassFilter())), new FilesystemCache('/path/to/cache'));

echo $styles->dump();

# /path/to/web/css/styles.php

$styles = new AssetCache(new AssetCollection( array(new FileAsset('/path/to/main.sass')), array(new SassFilter())), new FilesystemCache('/path/to/cache'));

echo $styles->dump();

Run the filters once and cache the content

Better: HTTP Caching

// $core = new AssetCache(...

$mtime = gmdate('D, d M y H:i:s', $core->getLastModified()).' GMT';

if ($mtime == $_SERVER['HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE']) { header('HTTP/1.0 304 Not Modified'); exit();}

header('Content-Type: text/javascript');header('Last-Modified: '.$mtime);echo $core->dump();

Best: Static Assets

# /path/to/deploy/scripts/dump_assets.php

$am = new AssetManager();$am->set('foo', $foo);// etc...

$writer = new AssetWriter('/path/to/web');$writer->writeManagerAssets($am);

Best-est:Content Distribution Network

new AssetWriter('s3://my-bucket')

new AssetWriter('s3://my-bucket')

A CloudFront S3 bucket

Custom Stream Wrappers

$s3 = new \Zend_Service_Amazon_S3($key, $secret);$s3->registerStreamWrapper();

Not Lazy Enough?

Asset Formulae and theLazy Asset Manager

$asset = $factory->createAsset( array('js/src/*.coffee'), array('coffee', '?closure'), array('output' => 'js/all.js'));

$formula = array( array('js/src/*.coffee'), array('coffee', '?closure'), array('output' => 'js/all.js'));

$am = new LazyAssetManager($factory);$am->setFormula('all_js', $formula);

header('Content-Type: text/javascript');echo $am->get('all_js')->dump();

A ThoughtAssets are a part of the view layer

and should be defined there.

<!-- header.php -->

<?php foreach (assetic_javascripts( array('js/core.js', 'js/more.js'), array('?yui_js')) as $url): ?>

<script src="<?php echo $url ?>"></script>

<?php endforeach; ?>

An IssueAssets defined in the view layer must actually exist somewhere

Option Number BadLazily dump assets to the

web directory

Option Number GoodEagerly dump assets to the

web directory

A template is a configuration file

Formula Loadersextract asset formulae from templates

$loader = new FunctionCallsFormulaLoader();$resource = new DirectoryResource( '/path/to/templates', '/\.php$/');

$formulae = $loader->load($resource);

$am = new LazyAssetManager($factory);$am->setLoader('php', $loader);$am->addResource($resource, 'php');

$writer = new AssetWriter('/path/to/web');$writer->writeManagerAssets($am);

$am = new LazyAssetManager($factory);$am->setLoader('php', $loader);$am->addResource($resource, 'php');

$writer = new AssetWriter('/path/to/web');$writer->writeManagerAssets($am);

Expensive every time

$cache = new ConfigCache('/path/to/cache');

$loader = new CachedFormulaLoader( $loader, $cache, $debug);

$cache = new ConfigCache('/path/to/cache');

$loader = new CachedFormulaLoader( $loader, $cache, $debug);

Whether to stat each file for changes

Twig Integration

{% javascripts 'js/*.coffee' filter='coffee' %}<script src="{{ asset_url }}"></script>{% endjavascripts %}

<script src="js/92429d8.js"></script>

{% javascripts 'js/*.coffee' filter='coffee' %}<script src="{{ asset_url }}"></script>{% endjavascripts %}

{% javascripts 'js/*.coffee' filter='coffee' output='js/all.js' %}<script src="{{ asset_url }}"></script>{% endjavascripts %}

<script src="js/all.js"></script>

{% javascripts 'js/*.coffee' filter='coffee' output='js/all.js' %}<script src="{{ asset_url }}"></script>{% endjavascripts %}

{% javascripts 'js/*.coffee' filter='coffee,?closure' %}<script src="{{ asset_url }}"></script>{% endjavascripts %}

{% javascripts 'js/*.coffee' filter='coffee,?closure' debug=true %}<script src="{{ asset_url }}"></script>{% endjavascripts %}

{% javascripts 'js/*.coffee' filter='coffee,?closure' combine=false %}<script src="{{ asset_url }}"></script>{% endjavascripts %}

<script src="js/92429d8_1.js"></script><script src="js/92429d8_2.js"></script><script src="js/92429d8_3.js"></script>

<script src="js/92429d8_1.js"></script><script src="js/92429d8_2.js"></script><script src="js/92429d8_3.js"></script>

Each “leaf” asset is referenced individually

AsseticBundleSymfony2 integration

Configuration

# config.yml

assetic: debug: %kernel.debug% use_controller: false filters: coffee: ~ yui_js: jar: /path/to/yuicompressor.jar

{# when use_controller=true (config_dev.yml) #}

<script src="{{ path('assetic_foo') }}"...

# routing_dev.yml_assetic: resource: . type: assetic

{# when use_controller=false (config_prod.yml) #}

<script src="{{ asset('js/core.js') }}"></script>

{# when use_controller=false (config_prod.yml) #}

<script src="{{ asset('js/core.js') }}"></script>

Lots for free

The Symfony2 Assets Helper

• Multiple asset domains

• Cache buster

framework: templating: assets_version: 1.2.3 assets_base_urls: - http://assets1.domain.com - http://assets2.domain.com - http://assets3.domain.com - http://assets4.domain.com

{% stylesheets filter='scss,?yui_css' output='css/all.css' 'css/src/main.scss' 'css/src/more.scss' %}<link href="{{ asset_url }}" rel="stylesheet">{% endstylesheets %}

<link href="http://assets3.domain.com/css/all.css?1.2.3" ...

assetic:dump

$ php app/console assetic:dump web/

$ php app/console assetic:dump s3://my-bucket

assetic:dump --watchDump static assets in the background as you develop

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