---
name: "Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libmojolicious-plugin-assetpack-perl"
version: "2.15-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack"
---

# Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack(3pm)

Compress and convert CSS, Less, Sass, JavaScript and CoffeeScript files

## NAME

Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack - Compress and convert CSS, Less, Sass, JavaScript and CoffeeScript files

## SYNOPSIS

### Application

```
  use Mojolicious::Lite;
  # Load plugin and pipes in the right order
  plugin AssetPack => {pipes => [qw(Less Sass Css CoffeeScript Riotjs JavaScript Combine)]};
  # define asset
  app->asset->process(
    # virtual name of the asset
    "app.css" => (
      # source files used to create the asset
      "sass/bar.scss",
      "https://github.com/Dogfalo/materialize/blob/master/sass/materialize.scss",
    )
  );
```

### Template

```
  <html>
    <head>
      %= asset "app.css"
    </head>
    <body><%= content %></body>
  </html>
```

## DESCRIPTION

Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack is a Mojolicious plugin for processing static assets. The idea is that JavaScript and CSS files should be served as one minified file to save bandwidth and roundtrip time to the server.

There are many external tools for doing this, but integrating them with Mojolicious can be a struggle: You want to serve the source files directly while developing, but a minified version in production. This assetpack plugin will handle all of that automatically for you.

Your application creates and refers to an asset by its topic (virtual asset name).  The process of building actual assets from their components is delegated to "pipe objects".

## GUIDES

- Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Tutorial

  The tutorial will give an introduction to how AssetPack can be used.

- Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Developing

  The "developing" guide will give insight on how to do effective development with AssetPack and more details about the internals in this plugin.

- Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Guides::Cookbook

  The cookbook has various receipes on how to cook with AssetPack.

## HELPERS

### asset

```
  $self = $app->asset;
  $self = $c->asset;
  $bytestream = $c->asset($topic, @args);
  $bytestream = $c->asset("app.css", media => "print");
```

`asset()` is the main entry point to this plugin. It can either be used to access the Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack instance or as a tag helper.

The helper name "asset" can be customized by specifying "helper" when registering the plugin.

## ATTRIBUTES

### minify

```
  $bool = $self->minify;
  $self = $self->minify($bool);
```

Set this to true to combine and minify the assets. Defaults to false if "mode" in Mojolicious is "development" and true otherwise.

### route

```
  $route = $self->route;
  $self = $self->route($route);
```

A Mojolicious::Routes::Route object used to serve assets. The default route responds to HEAD and GET requests and calls **serve\_asset()** on "store" to serve the asset.

The default route will be built and added to the application when "process" is called the first time.

### store

```
  $obj = $self->store;
  $self = $self->store(Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Store->new);
```

Holds a Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Store object used to locate, store and serve assets.

### tag\_for

Deprecated. Use "renderer" in Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Asset instead.

### ua

```
  $ua = $self->ua;
```

Holds a Mojo::UserAgent which can be used to fetch assets either from local application or from remote web servers.

## METHODS

### pipe

```
  $obj = $self->pipe($name);
  $obj = $self->pipe("Css");
```

Will return a registered pipe by `$name` or `"undef"` if none could be found.

### process

```
  $self = $self->process($topic => @assets);
  $self = $self->process($definition_file);
```

Used to process assets. A `$definition_file` can be used to define `$topic` and `@assets` in a separate file.

`$definition_file` defaults to "assetpack.def".

### processed

```
  $collection = $self->processed($topic);
```

Can be used to retrieve a Mojo::Collection object, with zero or more Mojolicious::Plugin::AssetPack::Asset objects.

### register

```
  $self->register($app, \%config);
```

Used to register the plugin in the application. `%config` can contain:

- •

  helper

  Name of the helper to add to the application. Default is "asset".

- •

  pipes

  This argument is mandatory and need to contain a complete list of pipes that is needed. Example:

  ```
    $app->plugin(AssetPack => {pipes => [qw(Sass Css Combine)]);
  ```

- •

  proxy

  A hash of proxy settings. Set this to `0` to disable proxy detection. Currently only "no\_proxy" is supported, which will set which requests that should bypass the proxy (if any proxy is detected). Default is to bypass all requests to localhost.

  See "detect" in Mojo::UserAgent::Proxy for more information.

## SEE ALSO

Mojolicious::Plugin::Webpack.

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2020, Jan Henning Thorsen

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License version 2.0.

## AUTHOR

Jan Henning Thorsen - `"jhthorsen@cpan.org"`

Alexander Rymasheusky

Mark Grimes - `"mgrimes@cpan.org"`

Per Edin - `"info@peredin.com"`

Viktor Turskyi