Integrate Bootstrap Theme in Phoenix Framework - twitter-bootstrap-3

Question

I have been building a Meteor app and decided to ditch it in favor of phoenix. The problem I am having is trying to integrate a pre-made Bootstrap theme with my app. I need to be able to control the load order of the CSS, Sass, and JavaScript. In Meteor you put the load order in a package.json file and build a custom package for it. Also, you don't have to include import statements in your HTML. So my specific questions are these:
How do I control the load order of the files?
Where should all the JavaScript, CSS, Sass, and images files go? (I'm guessing in the static vendor directory?)
I do need to include the import statements in the HTML files correct?
This theme is pretty big with a bunch of JavaScript files, font awesome, Bootstrap CSS, custom CSS, Sass, images, and the kitchen sink.

Answer 1

In Phoenix this can be accomplished like so:
You'll want to include the sass-brunch package in your package.json file and run npm-install e.g.
{
"repository": {
},
"dependencies": {
"brunch": "^1.8.5",
"babel-brunch": "^5.1.1",
"clean-css-brunch": ">= 1.0 < 1.8",
"css-brunch": ">= 1.0 < 1.8",
"javascript-brunch": ">= 1.0 < 1.8",
"sass-brunch": "^1.8.10",
"uglify-js-brunch": ">= 1.0 < 1.8"
}
}
Now you'll change your app.css located web/static/css/app.css file to app.scss. From here import all of your css/sass files (I personally add bootstrap to the vendor folder under css web/static/vendor/css/bootstrap.scss) e.g.
#import "../vendor/css/bootstrap";
This next part might be the part that you had trouble figuring out, as I =o). What you do for javascript files is require them in your brunch-config.js file like so:
exports.config = {
// See http://brunch.io/#documentation for docs.
files: {
javascripts: {
joinTo: "js/app.js",
order: {
before: [
"web/static/vendor/js/jquery.min.js",
"web/static/vendor/js/bootstrap.min.js",
"web/static/vendor/js/scripts.js"
]
}
},
stylesheets: {
joinTo: "css/app.css"
},
templates: {
joinTo: "js/app.js"
}
},
conventions: {
// This option sets where we should place non-css and non-js assets in.
// By default, we set this to "/web/static/assets". Files in this directory
// will be copied to `paths.public`, which is "priv/static" by default.
assets: /^(web\/static\/assets)/
},
// Phoenix paths configuration
paths: {
// Dependencies and current project directories to watch
watched: [
"deps/phoenix/web/static",
"deps/phoenix_html/web/static",
"web/static",
"test/static"
],
// Where to compile files to
public: "priv/static"
},
// Configure your plugins
plugins: {
babel: {
// Do not use ES6 compiler in vendor code
ignore: [/web\/static\/vendor/]
}
},
modules: {
autoRequire: {
"js/app.js": ["web/static/js/app"]
}
},
npm: {
enabled: true
}
};