Making Symfony 2 Assetic development comfortable
assetic, php, symfony
Solution
For me, this is the fastest way to develop with `Assetic` I could find. I tried and I tried to find a better workflow to enhance speed of asset generation, but found none.
There is some work in the master branch of `Symfony2` on a `ResourceWatcher` component which could possibly helps on this issue by:
- Speeding up the watching process by relying on native resource watcher like `inotify`
- Fixing problem when resources are added/removed so they are dumped correctly.
You can watch progress on the component in this PR.
Hope someone will provide some tricks to speed up development with assetic or a completely different workflow.
Regards, Matt
Problem
I'm looking for ways to make Symfony 2 Assetic 1.0.2 development easier. I use Assetic for dumping/publishing my assets. Currently I keep running this command in the background: ``` php app/console assetic:dump --watch ``` It helps a lot, every change I make to JS or CSS files will automatically get dumped to the public directory where the resources are fetched from by the browser. However, I have issues with this: If I add a new CSS/JS file, for some reason it does not get dumped. I need to stop the watch, clear the cache and initiate the watch again. It is kind of slow, eats 5%-20% CPU time constantly. Is there an alternative to development with Assetic? I already tried the approach of serving the resources through a controller (`use_controller: true` for Assetic), but it was even slower (because let's face the fact, PHP is not for serving static data).