joomla-builder

An example repository equipped with a Joomla extension builder script for easy iteration.

Best practice for utilizing this repo

1. Create your own project repository first!!! Make sure it is BLANK
2. Git clone the master/main branch of this joomla-builder repository
3. Select and copy from joomla-builder repo (to the root of your blank project repo) the following folders:
   • joomla-builder
   • components
   • plugins
   • libraries
   • modules
4. Append the following text snippet into your project repository's .gitignore file:

# Exclude .DS_Store files
.DS_Store

# Ignore prettierrc
.prettierrc

# Python cache
__pycache__/

# JBuilder specific
builds/

Next Steps:

• Either generate or write your extensions in their own subfolder inside the now existing extension-type folder of the relevant type ["components", "plugins", "libraries", "modules"]
• For example if you wish to create and iterate on a helloworld component then create a folder called helloworld inside of the components folder in your (joomla-builder equipped) project repository. Write your extension files inside of that subfolder per Joomla standards.
• You may now easily create packaged installable artifacts of your new component by (in a terminal) changing to the joomla-builder folder and executing ./jBuilder.py, you will find the generated/packages artifacts within the newly created builds folder.

Note: If you are not fluent with the creation of Joomla extensions like components and plugins, have a look at my other repository which generates absolute minimalist, ready to install (folders and zip artifacts), and customizable (via CLI arguments) components and plugins. That repository is: joomla-tools https://github.com/Node0/joomla-tools

You may then move the generated folder of the component or plugin (if you use joomla-tools to create it) into your project folder
(as prepared using these instructions).

At that point you are all set to freely develop your extension, and execute ./jBuilder.py every time you would like to do a test install iteration.

Note 2: You'll want to stage->commit->push etc your changes as you go according to git best practices.