Jimdo Style Update

Updating service for CSS - Ensuring that style-critical function calls are not executed while CSS is being loaded.

Install

bower install jd-style-update

angular.module('myApp', ['jd-style-update'])

The Problem

When the following style tag is added to a page

<style type="text/css">
@import url('http://my.webfont.provider.example.org/fonts.css');
body {
	background: fuchsia;
}
</style>

It's not possible to get a reliable JS callback when the style is actually applied because the webfont request will block CSS rendering and will not trigger any JS callbacks when done.

Solution

We add a custom CSS rule to each style update

<style type="text/css">
@import url('http://my.webfont.provider.example.org/fonts.css');
/* ... */
.jd-style-update-loading-123456789 {
	content: "loaded";
}
</style>

and a Marker element to the dom

<div class="jd-style-update-loading-123456789"></div>

then each style-crytical function is passed into a queue that is aware of the current css loading state

// pseudo code
queue.push(function() { /* ... */ });

and then we check for this rule to be applied

// pseudo code
while ($marker.css('content') !== 'loaded') {
	wait();
}

and run the queue

queue.run();

Usage

jdStyleUpdater

angular.module('myApp').run(function(jdStyleUpdater) {
	jdStyleUpdater.update([
		'@import url("http://my.webfont.provider.example.org/fonts.css");',
		'body {',
		'	background: fuchsia;',
		'}'
	].join('')).then(function() {
		expect(angular.element(document.body)
			.css('background')).toBe('fuchsia');
	});

	// get promise without triggering an update
	jdStyleUpdater.ready().then(successCallback).catch(errorCallback);
});

jdStyleSafe

angular.module('myApp').run(function(jdStyleSafe) {
	// callbacks will be executed whenever there 
	// is no jdStyleUpdater.update in process 
	jdStyleSafe.apply(myCallback, ['foo', 'bar']);
	jdStyleSafe.call(myOtherCallback, 'foo', 'bar');
});

Configuration

angular.module('myApp').
	// base class that is applied to the marker element
	.constant('jdsuApplicatorMarkerClass', 'jd-style-update-loading-');
	// class for the <style> element  
	.constant('jdsuStyleTagClass', 'jd-style-update-style');
	// the css property that is used to check if the style is applied
	.constant('jdsuApplicatorLoadingProperty', 'content');
	// the properties value that is used to check if the style is applied
	.constant('jdsuApplicatorLoadingValue', 'loaded');
	// amount of time after we stop looking for the style and fail
	.constant('jdsuApplicatorTimeout', 2000);
	// amount of time between update checks
	.constant('jdsuApplicatorCheckInterval', 200);

Contribute

Initialize tooling

npm install

Grunt Tasks

• grunt: Execute tests
• grunt coverage: Serve coverage report on port 7000
• grunt test: Just test
• grunt test:e2e: Just test end to end
• grunt test:unit: Just test unit
• grunt tdd: Watch source and test files and run tests
• grunt tdd:e2e: Watch and test just end to end
• grunt tdd:unit: Watch and test just unit
• grunt build: Just build
• grunt release: Test, build, bump patch version, commit, add version tag and push

test tasks have a --browsers option to specify the browsers you want to use

See grunt-angular-toolbox for details

LICENSE

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2015 Jimdo GmbH http://jimdo.com

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