What is it?

A couple of powershell scripts and a gulpfile.

What does it do?

It parses .item files, grabs fields (blob in this case, but can be extended), and generates tangible content items from those fields.

Example: /sitecore/assets/css_asset.item -> /sitecore/assets/css_asset.css

It also does the inverse, when a change is made to the content item, it updates the associated .item file (right now it creates another version of the field in the item).

Example: /sitecore/assets/css_asset.css-> /sitecore/assets/css_asset.item

It only will update the associated files if there has been a change detected and the field content does not match (so you won't get stuck in an infinite update loop)

What do I need it for?

The first use case I thought for this was SXA, or the local development of themes for SXA, to help aid the development workflow around assets that will exist in Sitecore itself (css/js etc). I also figure it could be used outside of that, anywhere where you have assets stored in the file system that you will eventually want in Sitecore (media library for example).

How do I use it

Should be as easy as:

1. Clone, download, whatever, just get these files into your project

2. Update the paths.themeSrc and paths.itemSrc variables in the gulpfile.js

3. npm install to get the needed dependencies (yes this is assuming you have node installed on your local machine)

4. gulp default to start the gulp watchers (yellow is a change to an asset, blue is a change to an item)