Support for tasks about buildify

[powmedia]

It's a good idea; probably would be easiest to set up a few CLI commands as shortcuts to the various functions available e.g. buildify . --concat --wrap though syntax could probably be improved to show that these steps would be conducted in order

[josdejong]

It will be a really powerful extension I think.

I was thinking a little bit more like tasks are solved by build tools like ant and jake, where you can define your own tasks and not only some predefined ones. What you write is a regular script like this:

var buildify = require('buildify');

buildify.task({
    name: 'minify',
    depends: ['concat'],
    task: function () {
        console.log('minify task...');
    }
});

buildify.task({
    name: 'concat',
    task: function () {
        console.log('concat task...');
    }
});

Then buildify will execute all created tasks on the next process tick, taking into account command line arguments, and dealing with dependencies between the tasks. You can call your script the regular way:

node mybuildscript.js

but can also provide the task names that you want to run on the command line:

node mybuildscript.js concat

When buildify is installed globally, you could easily run buildify in the root of your project, like:

buildify
buildify concat

in that case buildify will just run the script buildify.js found in the root of the project (could also be some other default name for the build script of course).

I have created a fully working prototype for tasks (just 140 lines of code), if you like I can make a pull request to a separate branch of the buildify project so we can do some experimenting and development on tasks.

[powmedia]

Great, yes please feel free to submit a pull request. Do you have tests?

On 11 Jul 2013, at 11:20, Jos de Jong wrote:

It will be a really powerful extension I think.

I was thinking a little bit more like tasks are solved by build tools like ant and jake, where you can define your own tasks and not only some predefined ones. What you write is a regular script like this:

var buildify = require('buildify');

buildify.task({
name: 'minify',
depends: ['concat'],
task: function () {
console.log('minify task...');
}
});

buildify.task({
name: 'concat',
task: function () {
console.log('concat task...');
}
});
Then buildify will execute all created tasks on the next process tick, taking into account command line arguments, and dealing with dependencies between the tasks. You can call your script the regular way:

node mybuildscript.js
but can also provide the task names that you want to run on the command line:

node mybuildscript.js concat
When buildify is installed globally, you could easily run buildify in the root of your project, like:

buildify
buildify concat
in that case buildify will just run the script buildify.js found in the root of the project (could also be some other default name for the build script of course).

I have created a fully working prototype for tasks (just 140 lines of code), if you like I can make a pull request to a separate branch of the buildify project so we can do some experimenting and development on tasks.

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[josdejong]

It's currently just a proof of concept but its actually easier than I expected, I will add tests as well.

Ok nice, then I will clone the project, add the tasks and do a pull request. Would you like this pull request on the master branch or rather in a develop or feature branch?

[powmedia]

Feature branch would be great thanks

On 11 Jul 2013, at 12:36, Jos de Jong wrote:

It's currently just a proof of concept but its actually easier than I expected, I will add tests as well.

Ok nice, then I will clone the project, add the tasks and do a pull request. Would you like this pull request on the master branch or rather in a develop or feature branch?

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[josdejong]

See #13