How to avoid having to use "composer update" when changing CSS and JS files in my theme extension?

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How to avoid having to use "composer update" when changing CSS and JS files in my theme extension?

Post by kdim95 » 23 Oct 2022, 20:57

Laravel framework version: 9.36.4
Aimeos Laravel version: * 2022.07.2
PHP Version: 8.1.9
Environment: Linux

I have created a theme extension and selected it.

Every time I change a CSS or JS file in...
vendor/aimeos-themes/mytheme/themes/client/html/mytheme/*.css

The changes don't reflect on the frontend without doing composer up

How can you temporarily avoid the entire process of having to execute composer up every time and use the theme files directly from the extension?

I can edit the files directly in...
public/vendor/shop/themes/mytheme

But I don't want to accidentally overwrite them with composer up at a later point.
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Re: How to avoid having to use "composer update" when changing CSS and JS files in my theme extension?

Post by aimeos » 24 Oct 2022, 17:34

You can link the ./packages/<extname>/themes/ folder of your extension to ./public/vendor/shop/themes/<extname>/ directory.
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Re: How to avoid having to use "composer update" when changing CSS and JS files in my theme extension?

Post by kdim95 » 25 Oct 2022, 08:04

I'm sorry, how do you 'link' it :)
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Re: How to avoid having to use "composer update" when changing CSS and JS files in my theme extension?

Post by aimeos » 25 Oct 2022, 08:12

Use the Linux command line utility "ln":
https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-create ... n-command/
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Re: How to avoid having to use "composer update" when changing CSS and JS files in my theme extension?

Post by kdim95 » 25 Oct 2022, 10:01

I tried the following links

ls - s ./packages/<extname>/themes ./public/vendor/shop/themes/<extname>
ln -s ./packages/<extname>/themes/client/html/<extname> ./public/vendor/shop/themes/<extname>

it keeps looking for the files in ./public/vendor/shop/themes/<extname>
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Re: How to avoid having to use "composer update" when changing CSS and JS files in my theme extension?

Post by kdim95 » 25 Oct 2022, 10:20

I solved it by providing the full paths when linking:

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ln -s /var/www/vhosts/<domain>/httpdocs/packages/<extname>/themes/client/html/<extname> /var/www/vhosts/<domain>/httpdocs/public/vendor/shop/themes/<extname>
And for removal of the link, the command is:

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unlink /var/www/vhosts/<domain>/httpdocs/public/vendor/shop/themes/<extname>
Should be noted that before linking to .../public/vendor/shop/themes/<extname>, the directory had to be deleted.
It will not link properly if the public theme directory already exists.

For listing of symbolic links to the directory, the command is:

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ls -l /var/www/vhosts/<domain>/httpdocs/public/vendor/shop/themes/<extname>
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Re: How to avoid having to use "composer update" when changing CSS and JS files in my theme extension?

Post by peter69 » 25 Oct 2022, 19:28

You saved my life!!!

Thank you so much!!
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