search

backdrop-contrib / stanford_decanter

Decanter 7 Stanford theme for Backdrop CMS
GNU General Public License v2.0
0 stars 0 forks source link

Use github actions to add extra components to release zip #2

Open izmeez opened 2 months ago

izmeez commented 2 months ago

While listening to the, Backdrop weekly development meeting for June 13, discussion on the Stanford Decanter Theme, it was interesting to hear that github actions can be used to build the additional required components and include them in the release zip. This would mean the theme would be usable on download by anyone, without extra effort. Is this worth further consideration?

izmeez commented 2 months ago

The discussion on github actions begins here

izmeez commented 2 months ago

The whole discussion is only 20 minutes and worth a listen.

klonos commented 2 months ago

For clarity: what needs to be done is to use GitHub actions to "inject" the build assets into the .zip that is built with each project release - these assets will NOT be added to the codebase (it should be kept "clean" in order to not cause problems for developers and the maintainers of the theme).

izmeez commented 2 months ago

In zulip it was also mentioned

Using GitHub actions will only help if someone uses the theme exactly the way it is defined in the stylesheet. If they want to customize it for their own site they'll need their own workflow for building it

and I was wondering how will the repo work for PRs. Will a fork need to build the components?

herbdool commented 2 months ago

Here's some info on the build process https://tailwindcss.com/docs/installation. As I was saying, any change to any style to adapt to a specific site requires running npx. So I don't think GitHub actions will provide much value.