Generator CoffeeScript & Karma

A Yeoman generator to scaffold CoffeeScript projects, test it with karma (Jasmine) and run build tasks with Grunt.

Installation

First you need to install the generator on your machine. Use npm to global install the generator;

npm install -g generator-coffeescript-karma

Run 'yo coffee-karma' or 'yo' inside the project root and select the 'Coffee Karma' generator. More information about generators on Yeoman.

yo coffee-karma

or

yo

Yeoman will create a project with the following structure:

.
├── dist
│   │── projectName.js
│   └── projectName.min.js
├── lib (If bower packages installed)
├── node_modules
├── src
|   └── coffee
│       ├── projectName.coffee
│       └── classes
│           └── main.class.coffee
├── test
|   └── coffee    
│       ├── projectName.test.coffee
│       └── classes
│           └── main.class.test.coffee
├── .gitignore
├── bowerrc
├── bower.json
├── package.json
├── gruntfile.coffee
├── karma.config.coffee
└── README.md

Git ignores lib & node_modules

That's all there is to it! You can start coding, testing and building right out of the box!

Usage

Testing

Great, you are ready to write awesome code! But off course, you want to run tests, lots and lots of tests. Start Karma by running the 'grunt karma' command in the terminal.

grunt karma

This project uses the grunt-karma module. It works right away! Info about customization can be found at grunt-karma.

Karma shows the test reports directly in the terminal. If you prefer a html based test report go to 'server/port/debug.html' while 'grunt karma' is running. Most likely this url is;

http://localhost:9876/debug.html

It is possible you have to refresh to get the last report

At this moment, only chrome comes out of the box. If you would like to use another browser-launchers, install the launcher with npm and edit the 'browsers' registration method in the 'karma.config.coffee' file.

Find more browser launchers

Compiling

You could run 'grunt' in the terminal to compile & uglify the CoffeeScript files manually.

grunt

If you would like to compile & uglify coffeeScript automatically on file change, activate the grunt watcher. This is easily done by running the 'grunt watch' command in the terminal.

grunt watch

Building & Deploying

If your code is ready for production, simply run 'grunt:patch', 'grunt:minor' or 'grunt:major' in your terminal to deploy on github. This will do a few things;

1. Compile CoffeeScript to JavaScript.
2. Build 'projectName.js' & 'projectName.min.js' and save it in './dist'.
3. Update the version number and create an new release.
4. Commit & push new release to github (make sure the project is a github repo).

For a patch commit & push, just run 'grunt patch'. (v0.0.1 to v0.0.2)

grunt patch

For a minor commit & push, run 'grunt minor'. (v0.0.2 to v0.1.0)

grunt minor

for a major commit & push, run 'grunt major'. (v0.1.0 to v1.0.0)

grunt major

Copyright 2015 Lesley Duyndam

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