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Posted by John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points

Creating a repository/CDN

I know its not a standard CDN as it would be hosted on a single server and not various servers depending on client IP. I can't use Google's CDN because I am developing for an infrastructure that doesn't allow it (yay! DOD). However I find that I am constantly using JQuery both 1.10 and JQuery 2, as well as other like Twitter Bootstrap both 2 and 3 and both the CSS and the JavaScript portions of it.

Rather than including this in the files locally I rather just call them and include them from a central source like "my-secure-server/vendor/js " for example.

I need help figuring out the best file architecture to store multiple version of multiple vendor stuff. Do I do an assets/css/vendor/ and like wise an assets/js/vendor or do I sort them by vendor first and then type so assets/vendor/css and assets/vendor/js? Where do I sort by version? assets/vendor/version/css or maybe assets/vendor/js/version.

I am looking for efficiency, any help is appreciated.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

So you want to standardize your file organization for assets hosted on a local server?

John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points

Aye. Rather than including all those assets on a given projects virtual server just link to them from a single source. Its just coming up with the most logical and cleanest structure. I wasn't the first Dev here and I likely won't be the last so if I can make things as "best practice" as I can.

2 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Personally I think the best way to do it is:

-assets
  -css
    -vendor
      -version
  -javascript
   -vendor
     -version
  -images
John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points
John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points

Type > vendor > version

Awesome thanks