Simple proxy that can download Javascript (or other) librairies for you. This tools was made for lazy developpers like me. Everytime I started a project that needs some JavaScript librairies I needed to download them or install some other big tools to do it for me.
CacheMyLibs will simply do it for you.
Other advantages:
- Simple to use.
- Let you work offline.
- Multiple projects will make use of a single file.
- Clear your architecture by not putting the dependencies in your project.
Pythons are easy to cache and can be very and can be very fierce and unpredictable. Also you can easily read in them and learn from them how to be sneaky. It's also the main language from Archlinux and Raspberry Pi. Good enough ?
You will need Python 3.x as a dependency so don't forget to bring your python into your home. Feed them a bit some time by launching the server:
$ python3 cml.py --verbosityThen you can use CacheMyLibs by using the address from you localhost
<script src='http://127.0.0.1:8666/jquery/2.1.1-beta1/jquery.min.js'></script>That's it ! CacheMyLibs will try to get it from your localhost (the cache). If the file couldn't be find, then it will try to search the librairie from the defined CDN and cache it for you.
You can configure his nutriments by editing the configuration file config.ini
- port (default 8666): where to feed this animal
- pid (defaut /var/run/cml/cml.pid): check if he is alive (not implemented yet)
This section provides you some basic influence over the caching options.
- use-cache (default: yes): make him faster to catch his prey(s). By setting use-cache to
nothis tool will become somehow very useless. So I won't recommend to disable this feature. - cache-dir (default: cache/): where to store the aliments. This is the directory where all catched file will be stored.
This section will let you configure the real CDN servers that are needed to grab librairies that aren't cached on you system.
This section let you add aliases over the librairies that you want to automatically download. For instance, it will let you replace
<script src='http://127.0.0.1:8666/jquery/2.1.1-beta1/jquery.min.js'></script>by
<script src='http://127.0.0.1:8666/jquery.min.js'></script>In order to enable this you should add an entry into the configuration file. Here is a small example of how it should look like:
[LIBS]
jquery.min.js = jquery/2.1.1-beta1/jquery.min.js
react.js = react/0.10.0/react.min.js
- --verbosity (default: False): do you want to speak with the python ?
- --config (default: config.ini): let you use a specific config file
- --port (default: None): let you specify a port value to overwrite configuration file
- --no-pid (default: False): don't check and don't use pid file
Yves Lange (author)