Tag: CoffeeScript

How to Prevent iOS Standalone Mode Web Apps From Opening Links in Safari (CoffeeScript Version)

Apple conveniently let’s users add any site to their home screen as a standalone web application that acts much like a native application.

But there’s one problem – by default all links open in Safari rather than in the web application. Very annoying.

I found a few bits of code out there to workaround this issue, the best of which came from Stanislav Kostadinov. Since we use mostly CoffeeScript, here’s a CS version:

# based on http://stanislav.it/how-to-prevent-ios-standalone-mode-web-apps-from-opening-links-in-safari/
if window.navigator.standalone?
noddy = false
remotes = false
document.addEventListener 'click', (event) ->
noddy = event.target
while noddy.nodeName isnt 'A' and noddy.nodeName isnt 'HTML'
noddy = noddy.parentNode
if noddy.href? and !!~ noddy.href.indexOf('http') and (!!~ noddy.href.indexOf(document.location.host) || remotes)
event.preventDefault()
document.location.href = noddy.href
return
, false

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Simple Grunt Configuration for Sass & CoffeeScript

UPDATE: There was a small bug with watching Sass files which is now fixed. The fix removed the ability to use .sass and now only .scss will be processed. You can of course edit the code and switch to .sass but it doesn’t allow you to watch them both at once. The majority of folks use .scss so I doubt this will be an issue.

I also added support for LiveReload.

Today I needed a simple Gruntfile for compiling Sass and CoffeeScript files. My requirements were pretty basic:

  • use CoffeeScript for the Gruntfile
  • compile *.coffee into *.js
  • compile *.sass and *.scss into *.css
  • allow for sub-directories
  • maintain the directory structure
  • provide commands to simply compile once or watch for changes

Now there’s a ton of articles out there about doing this but many fall short with a combination of being out-dated, using JavaScript for the Gruntfile, hard-coding file paths, not preserving directory structure, etc. So here’s a very simple working configuration to get you up and running fast.

First, I’m assuming you’ve got Node installed along with Ruby and RubyGems.

Second, I’m also assuming you have a directory structure that looks like this:

*.html
Gruntfile.coffee
package.json
/lib
/coffee
*.coffee
/css
*.css
/js
*.js
/sass
*.sass
*.scss

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You can easily change it around by editing the cwd, src, and dest properties of the Gruntfile. But I suggest running it as-is at first to ensure you’ve got things working in the first place.

Copy the following two files (Gruntfile.coffee and package.json) and drop them into the root of your project.

module.exports = (grunt) ->
# configuration
grunt.initConfig
# grunt sass
sass:
compile:
options:
style: 'expanded'
files: [
expand: true
cwd: 'lib/sass'
src: ['**/*.scss']
dest: 'lib/css'
ext: '.css'
]
# grunt coffee
coffee:
compile:
expand: true
cwd: 'lib/coffee'
src: ['**/*.coffee']
dest: 'lib/js'
ext: '.js'
options:
bare: true
preserve_dirs: true
# grunt watch (or simply grunt)
watch:
html:
files: ['**/*.html']
sass:
files: '<%= sass.compile.files[0].src %>'
tasks: ['sass']
coffee:
files: '<%= coffee.compile.src %>'
tasks: ['coffee']
options:
livereload: true
# load plugins
grunt.loadNpmTasks 'grunt-contrib-sass'
grunt.loadNpmTasks 'grunt-contrib-coffee'
grunt.loadNpmTasks 'grunt-contrib-watch'
# tasks
grunt.registerTask 'default', ['sass', 'coffee', 'watch']

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{
"name": "grunt-sass-coffeescript",
"version": "0.1.0",
"repository": "",
"devDependencies": {
"grunt": "~0.4.2",
"grunt-contrib-sass": "~0.7.2",
"grunt-contrib-coffee": "~0.10.1",
"grunt-contrib-watch": "~0.5.3",
"coffee-script": "~1.7.1"
}
}

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With those in place, you’re almost ready to go. Just  run the following couple of commands and you should be up and running.

# install sass
sudo gem install sass
# install grunt cli globally
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
# note – switch to project directory where Gruntfile.coffee and package.json are sitting
# install dependencies
npm install
# run it (default is to watch both sass and coffeescript files)
grunt
# other tasks (compile once)
grunt sass
grunt coffee
# you can also explicitly call the watch task
grunt watch
# all commands are detailed by running the following
grunt –help

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Make sure to check out the complete list of options for the Grunt Sass plugin and the Grunt CoffeeScript plugin as you can easily tweak the Gruntfile to suite your needs.