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Denis Stephanov
Denis Stephanov

Reputation: 5241

Apache Wicket live preview changes in HTML and CSS

I am starting with Apache Wicket framework. I developed SPA applications until now where I was able to watch changes in realtime. In wicket is frontend rendered on server, so can there are some way how to get live preview of my code?

I stared project from scratch from wicket page where I have only HomePage, and let's say I build and run that project with commands mvn clean package and mvn jetty:run

Now I need change some css, f.e. background color. This css I have included by default with link in HomePage like this:

<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>Apache Wicket Quickstart</title>
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Yanone+Kaffeesatz:regular,bold' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="Stylesheet" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="Stylesheet" />
</head>

But I don't see that change in running code, I already have to stop server, rebuild project, a run server for every little change ... how to avoid these unnecessary steps? I am using wicket 8, thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 379

Answers (1)

martin-g
martin-g

Reputation: 17513

The easiest way is to use embedded Jetty. Wicket Quickstart Maven archetype provides everything pre-configured. You just have to run Start.java in your IDE and every change in HTML/CSS/JS files in the webapp/ folder will be autodetected. For the files which are in the classpath (src/main/java or src/main/resources) you will need to compile the Maven module. This happens automatically on every change in Eclipse. In IDEA you have to do it manually via Build menu -> Make module.

Upvotes: 2

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