Magento 2 Frontools

Set of front-end tools for Magento 2, based on Gulp.js

Questions

If you have any questions about this project let's go to offical Magento forum - Less to Sass Community Project

LESS themes support

LESS support was droped in version 1.0.0. Feel free to use older version (0.11.4 and lower) or create fork and customize newer versions to fit your needs.

NPM and Yarn support

Up from version 1.0.0 we are supporting both Node.js packages managers. If you want to keep modules in safe versions all the time, use Yarn, yarn.lock is already added to repository.

Requirements

• Node.js LTS version (v6 branch). We recommend to use avn to automate version switching. Required configuration is already added to repository as .node-version file.
• Gulp CLI global package - npm install -g gulp-cli or yarn global add gulp-cli
• Magento 2 project with SASS based theme i.e. SASS version of "Blank"

Installation

1. Run composer require snowdog/frontools
2. Go to package directory /vendor/snowdog/frontools
3. Run npm install or yarn
4. Decide where you want to keep your config files. You can store them in frontools config dir or /dev/tools/frontools/config. There is a gulp setup task to copy all sample config files from the config to /dev/tools/frontools/config and create a convenient symlink in project root. If you want to keep config files inside frontools config dir, you have to handle this manually.
5. Define your themes in themes.json

themes.json structure

First of all check config/themes.json.sample

• src - full path to theme
• dest - full path to pub/static/[theme_area]/[theme_vendor]/[theme_name]
• parent - name of parent theme
• locale - array of available locales
• localeOverwrites - set to true only if your theme have per locale customizations
• lang - define styles lang want to use for processing, should be same as files extension. Out of the box Frontools supports only scss
• postcss - (optional) PostCSS plugins config - have to be an array

Optional configurations for 3rd party plugins

• Create browserSync configuration
• Create eslint configuration
• Create sass-lint configuration
• Create stylelint configuration

Tasks list

• browser-sync - run browserSync- do not run this task separately, it's just a part of dev task
• clean - Removes /pub/static folder
• csslint - Run stylelint based tests
  • --theme name - Process single theme
  • --ci - Enable throwing errors, useful in CI/CD pipelines
• default - type gulp to see this readme in console
• deploy - Resolve theme inheritance of static assets (i.e. fonts, images) symlinking them to pub dir.
  • --theme name - Deploy single theme
  • --prod - Copy files instead of making symlinks
• dev - Runs browser-sync, inheritance and watch tasks
  • --theme name - Process single theme
  • --disableLinting - Disable SASS and CSS linting
  • --disableMaps - Toggles source maps generation
  • --prod - Production output - minifies styles
• eslint - Watch and run eslint on specified JS file
  • --file fileName - You have to specify what file you want to lint, fileName without .js
• inheritance - Create necessary symlinks to resolve theme styles inheritance and make base for styles processing. You have to run in before sytles compilation and after adding new files.
• release - Clean pub/static, deploy all necessary files and compiles everything with --prod flag. Makes code production ready.
• sasslint - Run sass-lint based tests
  • --theme name - Process single theme
  • --ci - Enable throwing errors, useful in CI/CD pipelines
• setup - Creates a convenient symlink from /tools to /vendor/snowdog/frontools and copies all sample files if no configuration exists
  • --symlink name - if you don't want to use tools as the symlink you can specify another name
• styles - Use this task to manually trigger styles processing pipeline
  • --theme name - Process single theme
  • --disableMaps - Toggles source maps generation
  • --prod - Production output - minifies styles
• watch - Watch for style changes and run processing tasks
  • --theme name - Process single theme
  • --disableLinting - Disable SASS and CSS linting
  • --disableMaps - Enable inline source maps generation
  • --prod - Production output - minifies styles