Gradle Web Preview Plugin

A Gradle plugin to help you preview site documentation or other web content locally. When run, this plugin starts an embedded Jetty server against the configured local content so that you can preview local web content, whether it is documentation or a project web site.

This plugin is NOT intended for use as a general web server, if that is what you are looking for, please check out one of the following:

• Gradle Jetty Plugin
• Gradle Tomcat Plugin

Installation

You can apply the plugin using the buildscript block:

buildscript {
  repositories {
    maven {
      url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
    }
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath "gradle.plugin.com.stehno.gradle:webpreview:0.3.0"
  }
}

apply plugin: "com.stehno.gradle.webpreview"

Or the newer plugins block:

plugins {
  id "com.stehno.gradle.webpreview" version "0.3.0"
}

Usage

DSL Extension

To configure the Web Preview plugin, the webPreview extension is provided:

webPreview {
    port = 0
    copyUrl = true
    resourceDir = file('build/web')
    contextPath = '/'
}

The port property is the web server port where content is to be served. The default is 0, which will choose a random available port. This port will be displayed in the output logs on startup.

The resourceUrl property is used to specify the directory where the web resources are to be served from. This property is required and the server will fail to start without it.

The copyUrl property determines whether or not the server URL is copied to the local clipboard on startup. This is handy when running locally with the random port setting.

The contextPath is an optional property used to define the root context path to be used as a prefix for all content. If not specified the server root "/" will be used.

Tasks

• startPreview - used to start the preview server with the configuration provided in the webPreview extension.
• previewStatus - used to display the status of the preview server.
• stopPreview - used to stop the preview server when it is running in background mode.

Building

You can build the project with Gradle:

./gradlew clean build

Note: if you have the preview server running during a build/test of the plugin, you may get test failures. Shut down the preview server and try building again.