Recompiling main file when dependency changed

[m-j]

I'm using 0.2.0 version of plugin for play 2.1.1. I have a problem with dependencies. My scss files are organized in following way:

main.scss
dep1.scss
dep2.scss

main.css file is included in html.

Whenever I change something in dep1.scss it gets compiled but what I really need is main.scss to be recompiled since this scss file produces css stylesheet that is included in html.

I there any way around that? Maybe this problem is fixed in newer version of plugin (for play 2.3)?

[freiguy1]

We're using this plugin and play framework 2.2.1. Still same issue. @m-j have you done anything to help with this? It seems we must modify and unmodify main.css every time we want a change in a dependency file to be realized.

[m-j]

@freiguy1 I worked around this problem - I removed play-sass plugin and delegated all work to grunt. Now grunt does sass compilation and watching.

Here you have some article how to do that:
http://eng.kifi.com/hooking-in-to-play-frameworks-sbt-plugin-lifecycle/

Generally I believe that we should rely on tools like grunt and glup to deal with web assets. They have better support and are used by wider community. I used this approach in another project (.NET this time) and it seems to work fine as well.

[iphilgood]

+1

@m-j I'm really interested in your workaround. Is there any specific code you can show me what your hook and Gruntfile does look like? And an additional question I'm asking myself is how do you handle the deployment?

Thx for your help

[freiguy1]

I wrote a little gist about what I did. Maybe that will point you in the right direction.

[iphilgood]

Thank you so much @freiguy1 🎉 This is exactly what I'm looking for! I'll try it out as soon as I got time 👍