jekyll-simple-assets

It's a simple Jekyll plugin for building production-ready assets. It does not support asset bundling as in HTTP/2 world it's considered a bad practice.

How to install it?

Copy assets.rb into your _plugins folder. Then make sure uglifyjs and cleancss binaries are in $PATH, or customize assets.rb to use JS and CSS optimization tools of your choice.

Note: if you end up customizing assets.rb it's a good practice to fork this repository and put your edited assets.rb there so you can track changes.

How to use it inside HTML?

<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% asset_url /path/to/my.css %}">
<script src="{% asset_url /path/to/my.js %}"></script>

How to use it inside CSS?

There is no need to change anything as all url() declarations will be rewritten automatically.

How to inline assets inside HTML?

Well, server push is still not widely supported (as of June 2016), so here's how:

{% asset_inline /path/to/my.css %}

How to see more detailed logs?

Use --verbose flag which changes Jekyll log level to debug. In debug mode all optimizations are displayed in a build log.

Why it's not published as a gem?

Because I'm lazy and it would make customizations harder.

You can always download the current version with curl:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jakubpawlowicz/jekyll-simple-assets/v2.0.1/assets.rb -o _plugins/assets.rb && (echo "d0ac7abcdfcc5321a57d36f4c30353efd83330e5  _plugins/assets.rb" | shasum -c -)

Why doesn't it support feature X?

Pull requests are welcome!

License

jekyll-simple-assets is released under the MIT License.