Build theme without changing directories

[bdimaggio]

Just wrote this to save me having to jump back and forth between the git root and the theme dir all the time. I'm a very novice shell scripter--feedback very welcome.

[wxactly]

@bdimaggio - I wish I could've saved you some trouble ahead of time! Here's a one-liner for your drupal site's theme dir that makes no assumptions about where it's located (drush 9):

drush dd $(drush st --field=theme)

[wxactly]

Actually take this just one step further, this seems to work for me... does this work for you?

npm run start --prefix=$(drush dd $(drush st --field=theme))

[bdimaggio]

ohhh this is brilliant ⭐️ I'm just gonna make aliases for this and its npm run build equivalent, at least for myself. Do you think it's worth adding those to this repo or would it be more helpful to just paste them into #tech-talk and/or #front-end? I don't really know whether we've established a standard for how things get into this repo.

[wxactly]

I think it's fine for this to live in this repo. The more I think about this though, the more it makes me feel like maybe we should consider adding something like this to https://github.com/thinkshout/robo-drupal

Like what if we could do robo theme start or robo theme build and what it did behind the scenes was...

cd $(drush dd $(drush st --field=theme))
npm run $ARG

[wxactly]

We could even have a special keyword for install (robo theme install) that did npm install instead.... still brainstorming ;)

[amydecat]

@bdimaggio and @wxactly - adding a script for this sounds like a valuable addition to ts_grid, and a PR would work just fine. That way others can test it out first before we add it in officially.

I usually end up with two terminal screens and keep the watcher running on one of them to see live updates. Since I haven't tried playing around with these solutions yet, I'm not sure how my flow might differ from the one(s) being proposed. Any insights here? The idea of getting to build the theme from the same directory we do work sounds like a great benefit. Let me know if I can be assistance!

[bdimaggio]

Heck yes! Awesome ideas all. I'll do that.

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