swd

Optimize assets and deploy your static website.

Features

Use only commited files
Minify CSS and use MD5 hash as file name
Minify JS and use MD5 hash as file name
Optimize images (JPG, PNG)
Set noindex and nofollow for non production environment

Example output:

$ ./deploy.rb -v

Deploying to staging.example.com...
Do you want to commmit changes first? [yN] n
>> Cleaning old build...
>> Cloning commited files...
>> Minify CSS...
>> Use MD5 hash for minified CSS...
>> Remove SASS files...
>> Minify CSS...
>> Use MD5 hash for minified JS...
>> Optimize JPGs...
>> Optimize PNGs...
>> Set noindex and nofollow for staging environment...
>> Uploading...
Successfully deployed.

Dependencies

Some system tools are needed:

minify for minifying your assets
md5sum for generating md5 hashes of your assets
sed for changing your HTML files for the optimized assets
jpgoptim for optimizing your JPG files (progress, 90%)
optipng for optimizing your PNG files
rsync for uploading to your server

Installation

Install ruby
Install dependencies
Clone git clone https://github.com/DSIW/swd.git
Put deployment.json and deploy.rb in your project directory
Make changes in deployment.json

Usage

$ deploy.rb --help

Usage: deploy.rb [options] [staging|production]

Optimize assets and deploy your static website.

Options:
    -c, --config                     Config file (default: deployment.json)
    -n, --[no-]dry-run               Run without actions
    -v, --[no-]verbose               Run verbosely

Note: Maybe some other improvements of your site are recommended:

Activate compression on Server for HTML, SVG,… files.
Use browser caching
Set the robots meta tag if you like. The robots.txt will be ignored if your site is linked.
Set favicon using Favicon Generator
Activate HTTPS by using the great Let’s Encrypt

Project structure

The website code needs to be in src/. Your site will be changed in build/. The following project structure corresponds to the example deployment.json.

project/
  src/
    assets/
        css/
        js/
        images/
    index.html
  build/
    ...

TODO

Some additional features would be nice:

[x] Use only commited files for the deployment
[ ] Parse CSS, JS and images folder from HTML files
[ ] Deploy to gh-pages

Contribution is very welcome! Create an issue or pull request!

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature-[short_description] or git checkout -b fix-[github_issue_number]-[short_description])
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some missing feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin [branch-name])
Create new Pull Request

License

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.