express-yui

Express YUI

Express extension for YUI Applications.

Goals & Design

This compontent extends express by adding a new member to the express application thru app.yui. This object is responsible for exposing the yui_config and yui_seed configurations into the view engine. Also, it provides a set of runtime utilities that can be used to customize the YUI config for the client side, creates a Y instance on the server side when needed to provide access to the registered modules on the server side, and provides a set of middleware to expose data into the runtime and the client side.

Installation

Install using npm:

$ npm install express-yui

Features

Features

• expose yui config per request
• expose seed files per request
• provide basic configurations for cdn, debug, and other common conditions
• provide basic middleware to server static assets from origin server, including combo capabilities built-in.
• provide basic middleware to expose yui_config and yui_seed into the view engine so they can be used in the templates to boot YUI in the client side.

Other features

• work with modown-locator to produce a build process by shifting any yui module in the application bundle or any other bundle.
• provide basic express view engine to rely on views registered at the server side thru the app.yui.use() as compiled templates.

Usage

Serving static assets from app origin

app.yui.setCoreFromAppOrigin();
app.yui.setGroupFromAppOrigin('group-name');
app.use(yui.static());

If you plan to define a prefix for all static assets, then make sure you set that before defining any group, so loader can know about it. Here is the example:

app.set('yui static prefix', '/static');
app.yui.setCoreFromAppOrigin();
app.yui.setGroupFromAppOrigin('group-name');
app.use('/static', yui.static());

License

This software is free to use under the Yahoo! Inc. BSD license. See the LICENSE file for license text and copyright information.

Contribute

See the CONTRIBUTE file for info.