Skip to main content

HumHub Build

HumHub provides some grunt tasks to ease the execution of some console commands. This guide describes how to setup grunt and run these commands. All grunt tasks need to be run within your HumHub root.

Setup Grunt​

  1. Install Node.js
  2. Install Grunt CLI
npm install -g grunt-cli
  1. call npm install in your HumHub root

Build production assets​

HumHub uses Yii`s build-in mechanism for compressing and combining assets as javascript or stylesheet files in combination with grunt. Those compressed assets are only used when running in production mode and in acceptance tests. When running in debug mode, separate assets files are used to ease development and debugging.

When running a development environment, you'll have to manually build those production assets in order to run acceptance tests (or testing the production mode). The production build will compress scripts and stylesheets configured in humhub\assets\AppAsset into the following files:

  • @humhub/static/js/all-*.js
  • @humhub/static/css/all-*.css

Grunt based build​

The simples way to build your production assets is by running the following grunt task:

grunt build-assets

Manual build​

  1. Delete the content of your static/assets directory.
  2. Delete the old compressed file @humhub/static/js/all-*.js and @humhub/static/css/all-*.css
  3. Run the following command within your protected directory:
php yii asset humhub/config/assets.php humhub/config/assets-prod.php
info

Refer to the Yii Asset Guide for more information.

Build themes​

HumHub themes consist of many less files within the /less directory of a theme. The grunt build-theme task can be used to build the community theme or other themes residing in the @humhub/themes directory. For this command you'll need to install Less:

npm install less less-plugin-clean-css -g

Build community theme​

To rebuild the community theme run:

grunt build-theme

Build custom themes​

To build another theme residing in the @humhub/themes directory run:

grunt build-theme --name=MyTheme
info

Refer to the Theming Guide for more information about custom themes.

Manual theme build​

To build a theme without grunt, run the following command:

lessc --clean-css themes/HumHub/less/build.less themes/HumHub/css/theme.css

Search index rebuild​

Grunt task for rebuilding your Search Index

grunt build-search

Run migration​

Grunt task for running database migrations.

The following command will run the migration for core and modules:

grunt migrate-up

Run core migrations only:

grunt migrate-up --module=0

Testing​

Run test server:

grunt test-server

Run tests:

grunt test
info

See Testing Guide for more use cases of the grunt test task.