REPLICA

Replica is small and very fast ECMA6 JavaScript CLI build tool and supports most common actions you will find while developing JavaScript applications or libraries.

Features

• Supports ECMA6 transpiling and import syntax (supports - js, json and text content)
• Realtime watching for added/removed files
• Development server with hot reload
• Pack scripts into one file
• Minify packed files
• Timestamp changed scripts in index html file
• Fast boilerplate project creation from templates

Replica by default only compiles and replaces files that are changed without needing to compile big files for every changes.

Installation

This package requires at least NodeJS v6.1.0 to be installed.

npm install -g build-replica

Usage

1. Simplest development setup

build-replica src/main.js -i index.html -s -t

2. Simplest production setup

build-replica src/main.js -i index.html -u -t

Templates

For a new projects there is an option for creating boilerplate web application:

build-replica make <dir> basic
cd <dir>
npm run dev

Usage

Usage:
	build-replica <file> [options]
	build-replica <command>

Options:
	-i, index       	Add output index file
	-t, timestamp   	Add timestamps to output files
	-w, watch       	Look after file changes in set input folders
	-u, uglify      	Specify that concatenated file should be minified, activates --concat
	-c, concat      	Concat all files into one
	-s, server      	Launch development server, activates --watch
	-b, build       	Specify build directory
	-l, library     	Add custom library

Commands:
	make <dir> [template] 	Create and prepare an empty project
	v          		Prints current version

Templates

basic - Basic web HTML5 application.
server - Basic NodeJS server application.

TODO

• CSS import
• Download url dependencies inside cache
• Documentation generation
• Support for small configuration files for attacing custom build tools
• To native & webasm compilation

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Arturs Šefers

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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