gem-hunter

A Marko plugin for Rollup.

1. Compiles Marko templates for the server and browser.
2. Externalizes styles to be consumed by other tools (eg: rollup-plugin-postcss).
3. Can calculate browser dependencies for a page template and send only templates with components to the browser.
4. Can output a bundle which automatically initializes Marko components.
5. Can create a linked build for both the server and browser with automated asset management.

Note: The Marko runtime is authored in commonjs, this means the @rollup/plugin-commonjs is required!

npm install @marko/rollup

import nodeResolve from "@rollup/plugin-node-resolve";
import commonjs from "@rollup/plugin-commonjs";
import marko from "@marko/rollup";

export default {
  ...,
  plugins: [
    marko.browser(),
    nodeResolve({
      browser: true,
      extensions: [".js", ".marko"]
    }),
    // NOTE: The Marko runtime uses commonjs so this plugin is also required.
    commonjs({
      extensions: [".js", ".marko"]
    }),
    // If using `style` blocks with Marko you must use an appropriate plugin.
    postcss({
      external: true
    })
  ]
};

Likewise, if bundling the components for the server use marko.server() as the plugin.

If you use both the server and browser plugins (in a multi rollup config setup) @marko/rollup will go into a linked mode. In the linked mode you will have access to the <rollup> tag on the server, and the browser config will automatically have the input option set.

export default [{
  // Config object for bundling server assets.
  input: "src/your-server-entry.js",
  plugins: [
    marko.server()
    ...
  ]
}, {
  // Config object for bundling browser assets.
  plugins: [
    marko.browser()
    ...
  ]
}];

In a linked setup you have access to the <rollup> tag which will provide two tag parameters that allow you to write out the asset links for your server rendered app.

The first parameter entry is the generated input name that the server plugin gave to the browser compiler. You can use it to find the corresponding entry chunk from rollups build.

The second parameter output is an array of AssetInfo | ChunkInfo objects with most of the same properties returned from rollup's generateBundle hook. Some properties have been stripped, notably code and map since they would be too large to inline directly. A size property is also available for all chunks to allow you to be able to filter out empty chunks, or inline chunks of certain size.

<head>
  <rollup|entry, output|>
    $ const entryChunk = output.find(chunk => chunk.name === entry);

    <if(entryChunk.size /* skip scripts all together if empty js file */)>
      <for|fileName| of=entryChunk.imports>
        <link rel="modulepreload" href=fileName/>
      </for>

      <script async type="module" src=entryChunk.fileName/>
    </if>
  </rollup>
</head>

Ultimately it is up to you to map the chunk data (sometimes referred to as a manifest) into the <link>'s and <script>'s rendered by your application.

If your rollup browser config contains multiple output options, or you have multiple browser configs, all of the chunks for each output are passed into the <rollup> tag.

For example if you have an esm and iife build:

{
  plugins: [
    marko.browser()
    ...
  ],
  output: [
    { dir: 'dist/iife', format: 'iife' },
    { dir: 'dist/esm', format: 'esm' }
  ]
}

we could access the assets from both builds:

<head>
  <rollup|entry, iifeOutput, esmOutput|>
    $ const iifeEntryChunk = iifeOutput.find(chunk => chunk.name === entry);
    $ const esmEntryChunk = esmOutput.find(chunk => chunk.name === entry);

    <script async type="module" src=esmEntryChunk.fileName/>
    <script nomodule src=iifeEntryChunk.fileName></script>
  </rollup>
</head>

and boom you now have a module/nomodule setup.

Marko was designed to send as little JavaScript to the browser as possible. One of the ways we do this is by automatically determining which templates in your app should be shipped to the browser. When rendering a template on the server, it is only necessary to bundle the styles and interactive components rendered by that template.

To send the minimal amount of Marko templates to the browser you can provide a Marko template directly as the input. This will also automatically invoke code to initialize the components in the browser, so there is no need to call template.render yourself in the browser.

Note: if you are using linked plugins then the server plugin will automatically tell the browser compiler which Marko templates to load.

export default {
  input: "./my-marko-page.marko",
  plugins: [
    marko.browser(),
    ...
  ],
  ...
}

Both the server and browser plugins can receive the same options.

You can manually override the Babel configuration used by passing a babelConfig object to the @marko/rollup plugin. By default Babels regular config file resolution will be used.

marko.browser({
  babelConfig: {
    presets: ["@babel/preset-env"],
  },
});

In some cases you may want to embed multiple isolated copies of Marko on the page. Since Marko relies on some window properties to initialize this can cause issues. For example, by default Marko will read the server rendered hydration code from window.$components. In Marko you can change these window properties by rendering with { $global: { runtimeId: "MY_MARKO_RUNTIME_ID" } } as input on the server side.

This plugin exposes a runtimeId option produces output that automatically sets $global.runtimeId on the server side and initializes properly in the browser.

const runtimeId = "MY_MARKO_RUNTIME_ID";
// Make sure the `runtimeId` is the same across all of your plugins!
marko.server({ runtimeId });
marko.browser({ runtimeId });

This option is only available for the browser plugin. It allows you to transform the list of chunks serialzed in a linked config to include whatever you like. For example if you did want to include the code property from the rollup chunk, to say inline some content, the following would work:

marko.browser({
  serialize(output) {
    return output.map((chunk) =>
      chunk.type === "asset"
        ? {
            type: "asset",
            fileName: chunk.fileName,
          }
        : {
            type: "chunk",
            name: chunk.name,
            isEntry: chunk.isEntry,
            fileName: chunk.fileName,
            code:
              chunk.code.replace(/^\s+$/, "").length < 1024
                ? chunk.code
                : undefined, // only inline small code chunks
          }
    );
  },
});

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