lilacs/project_config/defaults/base_paths.js

A web frontend building tool for teamwork, with automaticly compiling, merging, minifying, syncing files to server, supporting distributed servers, ensuring css or html files' inline reference with correct absolute path, and more.

// basePaths defaults
var defaults = {
    // build root directory, also the parent directory of src/dev/dist
    buildRoot: "./project",
    // web root directory
    webRoot: "./project"
};

var _ = require('lodash');
var path = require('path');

var vars = require('../../data/vars');

module.exports = (config) => {
    config.basePaths = !config.basePaths ? _.cloneDeep(defaults) : _.defaults(config.basePaths, _.cloneDeep(defaults));

    /**
     * webPrefix
     * for instance:
     *
     *     // the same
     *     {
     *         buildRoot: "./project",
     *         webRoot: "./project",
     *         webPrefix: ""
     *     }
     *
     *     // different
     *     {
     *         buildRoot: "./project/static",
     *         webRoot: "./project",
     *         webPrefix: "/static"
     *     }
     */
    var webPrefix = path.relative(config.basePaths.webRoot, config.basePaths.buildRoot);
    config.basePaths.webPrefix = webPrefix ? '/' + webPrefix : '';

    // make absolute path
    config.basePaths.buildRoot = path.join(vars.projectRoot, config.basePaths.buildRoot);
    config.basePaths.webRoot = path.join(vars.projectRoot, config.basePaths.webRoot);

};