I am working on a Joomla! 5 compatible theme and want to use the WebAssetManager function in combination with joomla.asset.json to register and include theme assets. I am bumping into an issue where the following happens:
This is my joomla.asset.json file:
{ "$schema": "https://developer.joomla.org/schemas/json-schema/web_assets.json", "name": "base", "version": "5.0.0", "description": "This file contains details of the assets used by this Joomla 5 site template.", "license": "GPL-2.0-or-later", "assets": [ { "name": "template.base.style", "description": "Template CSS", "type": "style", "uri": "media/templates/site/base/template.css" } ] } Note: the file in the declared uri exists
In my index.php I call the getWebAssetManager function:
/** @var Joomla\CMS\WebAsset\WebAssetManager $wa */ $assetManager = $this->getWebAssetManager(); After that I call the useStyle function to use the stylesheet like this:
$assetManager->useStyle('template.base.style'); And of course in the head of the page I jdoc include the stylesheets, like this:
<jdoc:include type="styles" /> The result is that stylesheets used by extensions are loaded in the frontend, but template.css doesn't.
Then I changed the code in index.php to register and include the stylesheet this way. So I don't use the joomla.asset.json but directly register the file:
$assetManager->registerAndUseStyle( 'template.base.style', 'media/templates/site/base/css/template.css', [], [], [] ); The result: it works! The file is loaded in the frontend the way it is supposed to be.
Can somebody explain to me why my first approach is not working? Am I overlooking something or is this a known bug in J5 which I didn't notice in de issue tracker?
