compile to only copy specified folders, not parse/compile them?

[jevets]

Use case example:

I want to use bower for package management, and I want the bower_components directory under public. Upon harp compile, I want the entire bower_components directory to be copied over to www but not be compiled/parsed. For example, Twitter Bootstrap's bower component includes a bunch of .less files, and upon harp compile, harp attempts to compile those files.

Some ideas on usage:

• Allow for a special flag in _data.json or _harp.json to tell harp compile (and harp server, while we're at it) to avoid compiling a set of files. Maybe something like this

// public/_data.json
{ 
    "index": {
        "title": "Home Page"
    },
    "bower_components": {
        "_compile": false
    }
}

• Allow harp compile to accept a list of files/directories that will only be copied to destination, not parsed/compiled. Maybe something like harp compile --copy-only="public/bower_components" or something.

[kennethormandy]

Yeah I am on board with this outcome, but I think it should just read the .gitignore file or something like that. I’m having the same problem with node_modules/, I can’t use some modules because Harp chokes on compiling them. It also slows everything down a lot when 90% of you app’s filesize is in a components directory, but you don’t actually need the output.

Thanks for opening an issue!

[jevets]

I keep /node_modules outside of the harp public/ folder.

I think using .gitignore is a good step in the right direction, but I do commit bower components to the repo on lots of harp sites, though not on all sites. I'd like to be able to commit to the repo and separately instruct harp on whether to compile a given folder or path or glob. Thoughts?

[kennethormandy]

If you have an example repo where you’ve committed the Bower components, that would probably be helpful for us. Eventually we’d like to support node_modules properly, so it could be outside public/ but still be available as you’d expect. I’d like to factor Bower and Component in when we do that, but it probably won’t happen right away.

[kennethormandy]

Ah, I’m going to close this in favour of #275 but feel free to post or reponse anything there