lineman-maven-plugin

maven plugin for lineman. Heavily inspired by the yeoman maven plugin

Using the plugin

This plugin by default assumes that the web part of your project is placed in ${basedir}/src/main/webapp and that there are the needed configuration files for Grunt and npm in this directory (Gruntfile.js, package.json and the config directory).

Insert the following into your pom.xml

<plugin>
   <groupId>com.github.maxxkrakoa.lineman-maven-plugin</groupId>
   <artifactId>lineman-maven-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>1.7</version>
   <executions>
       <execution>
           <id>lineman-clean</id>
           <!-- run lineman clean in the pre-clean phase to get correct ordering with maven-clean-plugin -->
           <phase>pre-clean</phase>
           <goals>
               <goal>clean</goal>
           </goals>
       </execution>

       <execution>
           <id>lineman-build</id>
           <phase>prepare-package</phase>
           <goals>
               <goal>build</goal>
           </goals>
       </execution>
   </executions>
</plugin>

This will take care of running lineman clean, npm clean and lineman build at the appropriate times in the maven build cycle.

To start the lineman watch process run mvn lineman:run

To start the lineman test server run mvn lineman:spec-ci

If you want to override the path to the webapp directory you can now do the following

<configuration>
    <webappPath>/my/webppath/here</webappPath>
</configuration>

Packaging the war file

Now configure the maven-war-plugin to use the output of lineman when packaging the war file.

Insert the following into your pom.xml

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.1</version>
    <configuration>
        <warSourceDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/dist</warSourceDirectory>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Using with jetty

If you want to use lineman with the jetty-maven-plugin then you need to configure the webapp section of jetty in your pom.xml similar to this

<webApp>
    <resourceBases>
        <resourceBase>src/main/webapp/generated</resourceBase>
    </resourceBases>
</webApp>

Configuring lineman

If you use this plugin with (for instance) the jetty plugin it makes sense to disable the server part of lineman since you will already have a server in jetty.

To do that add the following to config/application.js

/* don't run the server task as we use jetty for that  */
removeTasks: {
    dev: ["server"]
},

Release notes

version 1.7

Make webapp path configurable (thanks to dcfsc)