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# ABSTRACT: Simplify management of stylesheets in your HTML
use v5.10;
use Moo 1.006000;
use Carp;
use File::ShareDir 1.112 qw/ dist_file /;
use List::Util 1.45 qw/ first uniqstr /;
use Types::Path::Tiny qw/ Dir File Path /;
use Types::Common::Numeric qw/ PositiveOrZeroInt /;
use Types::Common::String qw/ NonEmptySimpleStr SimpleStr /;
use Types::Standard qw/ Bool CodeRef HashRef Maybe Tuple /;
# RECOMMEND PREREQ: Type::Tiny::XS
our $VERSION = 'v0.4.2';
has aliases => (
is => 'ro',
isa => STRICT ? HashRef [Maybe[SimpleStr]] : HashRef,
required => 1,
coerce => sub {
return { map { $_ => $_ } @{$_[0]} } if ref $_[0] eq 'ARRAY';
return $_[0];
},
);
has css_root => (
is => 'ro',
isa => Dir,
coerce => 1,
required => 1,
);
has url_base_path => (
is => 'ro',
isa => SimpleStr,
default => '/',
);
has prefer_min => (
is => 'ro',
isa => Bool,
default => 1,
);
has css_files => (
is => 'lazy',
isa => STRICT
? HashRef [ Tuple [ Maybe[Path], Maybe[NonEmptySimpleStr], PositiveOrZeroInt ] ]
: HashRef,
builder => 1,
coerce => 1,
);
use constant PATH => 0;
use constant NAME => 1;
use constant SIZE => 2;
sub _build_css_files {
my ($self) = @_;
my $root = $self->css_root;
my $min = $self->prefer_min;
my %files;
for my $name (keys %{ $self->aliases }) {
my $base = $self->aliases->{$name};
if (!$base) {
$files{$name} = [ undef, undef, 0 ];
}
elsif ($base =~ m{^(\w+:)?//}) {
$files{$name} = [ undef, $base, 0 ];
}
else {
$base = $name if $base eq '1';
$base =~ s/(?:\.min)?\.css$//;
my @bases = $min
? ( "${base}.min.css", "${base}.css", $base )
: ( "${base}.css", "${base}.min.css", $base );
my $file = first { $_->exists } map { path( $root, $_ ) } @bases;
unless ($file) {
$self->log->( error => "alias '$name' refers to a non-existent file" );
next;
}
# PATH NAME SIZE
$files{$name} = [ $file, $file->relative($root)->stringify, $file->stat->size ];
}
}
return \%files;
}
has cdn_links => (
is => 'ro',
isa => STRICT ? HashRef [NonEmptySimpleStr] : HashRef,
predicate => 1,
);
has use_cdn_links => (
is => 'lazy',
isa => Bool,
builder => 'has_cdn_links',
);
has inline_max => (
is => 'ro',
isa => PositiveOrZeroInt,
default => 1024,
);
has defer_css => (
is => 'ro',
isa => Bool,
default => 1,
);
has include_noscript => (
is => 'lazy',
isa => Bool,
builder => 'defer_css',
);
has preload_script => (
is => 'lazy',
isa => File,
coerce => 1,
builder => sub { dist_file( qw/ HTML-DeferableCSS cssrelpreload.min.js / ) },
);
has link_template => (
is => 'ro',
isa => CodeRef,
builder => sub {
return sub { sprintf('<link rel="stylesheet" href="%s">', @_) },
},
);
has preload_template => (
is => 'lazy',
isa => CodeRef,
builder => sub {
my ($self) = @_;
if ($self->simple) {
return sub {
sprintf('<link rel="preload" as="style" href="%s">' .
'<link rel="stylesheet" href="%s" media="print" onload="this.media=\'all\';this.onload=null;">',
$_[0], $_[0])
}
}
else {
return sub { sprintf('<link rel="preload" as="style" href="%s" onload="this.onload=null;this.rel=\'stylesheet\'">', $_[0]) };
}
},
);
has asset_id => (
is => 'ro',
isa => NonEmptySimpleStr,
predicate => 1,
);
has log => (
is => 'ro',
isa => CodeRef,
builder => sub {
return sub {
my ($level, $message) = @_;
croak $message if ($level eq 'error');
carp $message;
};
},
);
has simple => (
is => 'ro',
isa => Bool,
default => 0,
);
sub check {
my ($self) = @_;
my $files = $self->css_files;
scalar(keys %$files) or
return $self->log->( error => "no aliases" );
return 1;
}
sub href {
my ($self, $name, $file) = @_;
$file //= $self->_get_file($name) or return;
if (defined $file->[PATH]) {
my $href = $self->url_base_path . $file->[NAME];
$href .= '?' . $self->asset_id if $self->has_asset_id;
if ($self->use_cdn_links && $self->has_cdn_links) {
return $self->cdn_links->{$name} // $href;
}
return $href;
}
else {
return $file->[NAME];
}
}
sub link_html {
my ( $self, $name, $file ) = @_;
if (my $href = $self->href( $name, $file )) {
return $self->link_template->($href);
}
else {
return "";
}
}
sub inline_html {
my ( $self, $name, $file ) = @_;
$file //= $self->_get_file($name) or return;
if (my $path = $file->[PATH]) {
if ($file->[SIZE]) {
return "<style>" . $file->[PATH]->slurp_raw . "</style>";
}
$self->log->( warning => "empty file '$path'" );
return "";
}
else {
$self->log->( error => "'$name' refers to a URI" );
return;
}
}
sub link_or_inline_html {
my ($self, @names ) = @_;
my $buffer = "";
foreach my $name (uniqstr @names) {
my $file = $self->_get_file($name) or next;
if ( $file->[PATH] && ($file->[SIZE] <= $self->inline_max)) {
$buffer .= $self->inline_html($name, $file);
}
else {
$buffer .= $self->link_html($name, $file);
}
}
return $buffer;
}
sub deferred_link_html {
my ($self, @names) = @_;
my $buffer = "";
my @deferred;
for my $name (uniqstr @names) {
my $file = $self->_get_file($name) or next;
if ($file->[PATH] && $file->[SIZE] <= $self->inline_max) {
$buffer .= $self->inline_html($name, $file);
}
elsif ($self->defer_css) {
my $href = $self->href($name, $file);
push @deferred, $href;
$buffer .= $self->preload_template->($href);
}
else {
$buffer .= $self->link_html($name, $file);
}
}
if (@deferred) {
$buffer .= "<noscript>" .
join("", map { $self->link_template->($_) } @deferred ) .
"</noscript>" if $self->include_noscript;
$buffer .= "<script>" .
$self->preload_script->slurp_raw .
"</script>" unless $self->simple;
}
return $buffer;
}
sub _get_file {
my ($self, $name) = @_;
unless (defined $name) {
$self->log->( error => "missing name" );
return;
}
if (my $file = $self->css_files->{$name}) {
return $file;
}
else {
$self->log->( error => "invalid name '$name'" );
return;
}
}
1;
__END__
=pod
=encoding UTF-8
=head1 NAME
HTML::DeferableCSS - Simplify management of stylesheets in your HTML
=head1 VERSION
version v0.4.2
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use HTML::DeferableCSS;
my $css = HTML::DeferableCSS->new(
css_root => '/var/www/css',
url_base_path => '/css',
inline_max => 512,
simple => 1,
aliases => {
reset => 1,
jqui => 'jquery-ui',
site => 'style',
},
cdn => {
jqui => '//cdn.example.com/jquery-ui.min.css',
},
);
$css->check or die "Something is wrong";
...
print $css->deferred_link_html( qw[ jqui site ] );
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This is an experimental module for generating HTML-snippets for
deferable stylesheets.
This allows the stylesheets to be loaded asynchronously, allowing the
page to be rendered faster.
Ideally, this would be a simple matter of changing stylesheet links
to something like
<link rel="preload" as="stylesheet" href="....">
but this is not well supported by all web browsers. So a web page needs
to handle this, as well as a C<noscript> block as a fallback.
This module allows you to simplify the management of stylesheets for a
web application, from development to production by
=over
=item *
declaring all stylesheets used by your web application;
=item *
specifying remote aliases for stylesheets, e.g. from a CDN;
=item *
enable or disable the use of minified stylesheets;
=item *
switch between local copies of stylesheets or CDN versions;
=item *
automatically inline small stylesheets;
=item *
use deferred-loading stylesheets, which requires embedding JavaScript
code as a workaround for web browsers that do not support these
natively.
=back
=head1 ATTRIBUTES
=head2 aliases
This is a required hash reference of names and their relative
filenames to L</css_root>.
It is recommended that the F<.css> and F<.min.css> suffixes be
omitted.
If the name is the same as the filename (without the extension) than
you can simply use C<1>. (Likewise, an empty string or C<0> disables
the alias:
my $css = HTML::DeferableCSS->new(
aliases => {
reset => 1,
gone => 0, # "gone" will be silently ignored
one => "1.css", #
}
...
);
If all names are the same as their filenames, then an array reference
can be used:
my $css = HTML::DeferableCSS->new(
aliases => [ qw( foo bar } ],
...
);
If an alias is disabled, then it will simply be ignored, e.g.
$css->deferred_link_html('gone')
Returns an empty string. This allows you to disable a stylesheet in
your configuration without having to remove all references to it.
Absolute paths cannot be used.
You may specify URLs instead of files, but this is not recommended,
except for cases when the files are not available locally.
=head2 css_root
This is the required root directory where all stylesheets can be
found.
=head2 url_base_path
This is the URL prefix for stylesheets.
It can be a full URL prefix.
=head2 prefer_min
If true (default), then a file with the F<.min.css> suffix will be
preferred, if it exists in the same directory.
Note that this does not do any minification. You will need separate
tools for that.
=head2 css_files
This is a hash reference used internally to translate L</aliases>
into the actual files or URLs.
If files cannot be found, then it will throw an error. (See
L</check>).
=head2 cdn_links
This is a hash reference of L</aliases> to URLs. (Only one URL per
alias is supported.)
When L</use_cdn_links> is true, then these URLs will be used instead
of local versions.
=head2 has_cdn_links
This is true when there are L</cdn_links>.
=head2 use_cdn_links
When true, this will prefer CDN URLs instead of local files.
=head2 inline_max
This specifies the maximum size of an file to inline.
Local files under the size will be inlined using the
L</link_or_inline_html> or L</deferred_link_html> methods.
Setting this to 0 disables the use of inline links, unless
L</inline_html> is called explicitly.
=head2 defer_css
True by default.
This is used by L</deferred_link_html> to determine whether to emit
code for deferred stylesheets.
=head2 include_noscript
When true, a C<noscript> element will be included with non-deffered
links.
This defaults to the same value as L</defer_css>.
=head2 preload_script
This is the pathname of the F<cssrelpreload.js> file that will be
embedded in the resulting code.
You do not need to modify this unless you want to use a different
script from the one included with this module.
=head2 link_template
This is a code reference for a subroutine that returns a stylesheet link.
=head2 preload_template
This is a code reference for a subroutine that returns a stylesheet
preload link.
=head2 asset_id
This is an optional static asset id to append to local links. It may
refer to a version number or commit-id, for example.
This is useful to ensure that changes to stylesheets are picked up by
web browsers that would otherwise use cached copies of older versions
of files.
=head2 has_asset_id
True if there is an L</asset_id>.
=head2 log
This is a code reference for logging errors and warnings:
$css->log->( $level => $message );
By default, this is a wrapper around L<Carp> that dies when the level
is "error", and emits a warning for everything else.
You can override this so that errors are treated as warnings,
log => sub { warn $_[1] },
or that warnings are fatal,
log => sub { die $_[1] },
or even integrate this with your own logging system:
log => sub { $logger->log(@_) },
=head2 simple
When true, this enables a simpler method of using deferable CSS,
without the need for the C<loadCSS> script.
It is false by default, for backwards compatability. But it is
recommended that you set this to true.
This attribute was added in v0.4.0.
=head1 METHODS
=head2 check
This method instantiates lazy attributes and performs some minimal
checks on the data. (This should be called instead of L</css_files>.)
It will throw an error or return false (depending on L</log>) if there
is something wrong.
This was added in v0.3.0.
=head2 href
my $href = $css->href( $alias );
This returns this URL for an alias.
=head2 link_html
my $html = $css->link_html( $alias );
This returns the link HTML markup for the stylesheet referred to by
C<$alias>.
=head2 inline_html
my $html = $css->inline_html( $alias );
This returns an embedded stylesheet referred to by C<$alias>.
=head2 link_or_inline_html
my $html = $css->link_or_inline_html( @aliases );
This returns either the link HTML markup, or the embedded stylesheet,
if the file size is not greater than L</inline_max>.
Note that a stylesheet will be inlined, even if there is are
L</cdn_links>.
=head2 deferred_link_html
my $html = $css->deferred_link_html( @aliases );
This returns the HTML markup for the stylesheets specified by
L</aliases>, as appropriate for each stylesheet.
If the stylesheets are not greater than L</inline_max>, then it will
embed them. Otherwise it will return the appropriate markup,
depending on L</defer_css>.
=for Pod::Coverage PATH NAME SIZE
=head1 KNOWN ISSUES
=head2 Content-Security-Policy (CSP)
If a web site configures a
setting to disable all inlined JavaScript, then the JavaScript shim will
not work.
=head2 XHTML Support
This module is written for HTML5.
It does not support XHTML self-closing elements or embedding styles
and scripts in CDATA sections.
=head2 Encoding
All files are embedded as raw files.
No URL encoding is done on the HTML links or L</asset_id>.
=head2 It's spelled "Deferrable"
It's also spelled "Deferable".
=head1 SOURCE
The development version is on github at L<https://github.com/robrwo/HTML-DeferableCSS>
=head1 BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website
When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a
patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired
feature.
Please report any bugs in F<cssrelpreload.js> to
=head1 AUTHOR
Robert Rothenberg <rrwo@cpan.org>
This module was developed from work for Science Photo Library
F<reset.css> comes from L<http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/>.
F<cssrelpreload.js> comes from L<https://github.com/filamentgroup/loadCSS/>.
=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is Copyright (c) 2020 by Robert Rothenberg.
This is free software, licensed under:
The MIT (X11) License
=cut