spinning

Spinning

Spinning is the process of assembling your de-constructed site at compile time.

There are two flavours of spinning.

Design time spinning

>silk spin

This is the spinning you will do most of the time. It is designed to enable rapid design of your sites and projects. Assets are all relative in terms of references, an example is given below

<link href="resource/stylesheets/my-styles.css" rel="stylesheet" />

The key point here is that you can view the results in a browser directly off disk, it is convenient. The result of this is what you share with the designers on your project, it will look like the real final site minus real data etc.

Live spinning

>silk live

This is used when you are going to use the results of a spin in a dynamic web app context, in which case assets and resources need a '/' at the front.