RockDevTools - A Fresh Start for Development Tools (AIOM + LiveReload)

[bernhard]

Hi everyone!

I've started working on a new module that contains development tools like asset minification. Why a new module when RockFrontend and RockMigrations already have similar features?

I wanted to start fresh to make the code cleaner, and most importantly make it work properly with template cache! The old implementation in RockFrontend using page render hooks simply couldn't handle that.

The module is intended for development-only and should be disabled on production. The idea is to create minified assets while developing and then push the minified assets to production and there just include them in your markup!

LiveReload has also been moved from RockFrontend to this module. It's simply not a frontend-tool but rather a development tool! Using RockMigrations, for example, I'm always using the LiveReload feature on the backend, so it does not really make sense to have it in the frontend module 🙂 

Download & Docs: baumrock.com/RockDevTools

[rastographics]

I set the configuration as instructed $config->rockdevtools = true.

Yet still there is no config UI or evidence in the dashboard of rock dev tools anywhere besides the module install screen.

I even tried commenting out the 2 lines in the module's source code that exit early if $config->rockdevtools is not true. 

Any ideas on troubleshooting to get this module to appear in the ui?

[bernhard]

Not sure I understand your message. RockDevTools does not provide a UI. It provides an API to minify/merge assets and it provides SSE based live reload for your local pw development.