#SLOW

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What is SLOW?

SLOW is a web framework that help web developer focus on html,css, javascript and don't need care for server. You can develop web with LESS and Coffee and don't need compile them, SLOW will do them automatically. So you just need spend less time in work, coding slowly and thinking in coding, enjoy coding. Coding is not just for finish your work.

#How to install? slow need be installed as global. sudo npm install -g slow-cli

Getting Start

There is a slow project sample in "slow-cli/sample".

Init a slow project

#In the project directory, get a slow project by runing
slow init

##Take over and starup a http server

#In the project directory run.
slow start
#And then open the browser with http://localhost:3000

Enjoy your develop!

Now, you can enjoy coding with handlebar, coffeescript, less. don't need use grunt or gulp compile your project.

#Develop with slow There are all configs for slow, every fields will be described in the next section. this is develop config:(you can find it in .slow/config.js)

{
	"environment": "develop",
	"develop": {
	  "port": 3000,
	  "base": {
	    "index": "index.html",
	    "cache-time": 60 * 60 * 24 * 7,
	    "gzip": true,
	    "isWatchFile": true,
	    "showResponseTime": true
	  },
	  "proxy": {
	    "path": /^\/api/,
	    "options": {
	    "target": "http://localhost:8000"
	  }
	  },
	  "error": {
	    "403": ''
	  },
	  "log": {
	    "log2console": true,
	    "timestamp": false,
	    "levelShow": true,
	    "lineInfo": false,
	    "log2file": false
	  }
}

This is product config, you can find it in .slow/product-config.js it's same with develop config.

{
  "port": 3000,
  "base": {
    "index": "index.html",
    "cache-time": 60 * 60 * 24 * 7,
    "gzip": true,
    "isWatchFile": true,
    "showResponseTime": false
  },
  "proxy": false,
  "error": {
    "403": ''
  }
}

This is build config. it be used when you run slow build you can modify in .slow/build.js

 {
   "target": "build",
   "mincss": {
     "include": /.+\.(less|css)$/,
     "ignore": [/.+(\.min\.css)$/],
     "options": {}
   },
   "minjs": {
     "include": /.+\.(js|coffee)$/,
     "ignore": [/.+(\.min\.js)$/],
     "options": {
       "mangle": false,
       "compress": {}
     }
   },
   "hbsCompile": {
     "include": /.+(\.hbs)$/
   },
   "coffeeCompile": /.+(.coffee)$/,
   "lessCompile": /.+(.less)$/,
   "ignore": [/^(\.slow).+/, /.*(\.gitignore)$/]
 }

Set work environment

When we are developing a web project, we are in develop environment, so, at the first, you can setting slow work environment to be "develop" like this:

 module.export =
 {
   "environment": "develop",
   //...
 }

There just are two values for environment option, develop and product. the default setting is "develop". the environment option tell slow which config should be load when it is working.

Config develop environment

After set the work environment be develop, Now we can config the develop environment. There already has some default config option at ".slow/config.js". You define them by yourself in "develop" field.

port

the port that be slowused.default is 3000.

base

index

cache-time

gzip

isWatchFile

showResponseTime

proxy

path

options

error

log

Config product enviroment

Config build enviroment

###target ###mincss ####include ####ignore ####options ###minjs ###hbscompile ###cofeeCompile ###lessComplie ###ignore #HTML derective

include

import

watch_file

#Slow extensions

#Shell

##slow init ##slow build ##slow update ##slow start

slow -p [port]

slow -env [develop | product]

Feature

1. support less
2. support coffee-script
3. support handlebar

• support import directive
• support include directive

4. support http-proxy
5. support file watch
6. support gzip

LICENCE

MIT

History

v0.1.9beta3

1. fix bug that can not build project less.
2. modify the start way from slow to slow start. Avoid conflict with other shell commander

v0.1.9beta1

1. catch the error when compile coffeescript and hbs file. avoid the slow crash.

v0.1.8beta6

1. support proxy multipath

v0.1.8beta3

1. update command init

v0.1.8-beta1

1. add shell slow build package slow project to a pure html project. Don't need depend slow

slow build support:

1. autocompile coffee, less, handlebar
2. compress js, css to min file

v0.1.7

1. fix a bug that slow-cli crash when proxy config don't exists
2. add log config in config.js. more config see log4slow
3. add build project optional.(doing. it will publish in v0.1.8)

v0.1.6

1. fix a bug about issue #1

v0.1.4

1. exchange import and include function

v0.1.3

1. fix some bugs.

v0.1.1

1. update README.md and fix bug can not install

v0.1.0

1. finish basic function