Install with Yarn

Works with yarn, npm and probably* any other known build system in 2018/2019

yarn add --flat minundy.js

* Unknown and unlisted build systems are Untested

minundy.js

The current version is 1.0.3

minimal underscore.js templates build tool. Minimal Underscore Template Build System.

Transforms HTML templates, written for underscore.js template library, into JavaScript functions, compiled with _.template('str',{variable:'data'}) and writes to a single JavaScript object, output as JSON to filetemplates.js

Dependencies

Minimal dependencies. Primarily, underscore.js, which has the template engine. The second dependency is the Command Line Utility commanderjs. colorlogjs, which powers logging.

Works With

Works with yarn, built for yarn.

Works with The command line. Perfect for static HTML sites, servers without the ability to run nodejs as well as any place implementing underscore templates.

requires: underscore.js, node v10

Innerworking Details

Much like other configurable build systems, this script concatenates files together. To improve speed, this script keeps an intermediary step folder, processing HTML to JS into a js-dist-separate folder then watching this intermediary folder for changes, via fs.watch, for combining into templates.js. As of version 1.0.1 minundy.js uses a temporary system folder for this step unless explicitly specified, such as --distro-separate <location/path/here>

Usage, Single, Simple Watch and Build

	node node_modules/minundy.js/src/minundy.js watch --infolder path/html/to/watch  --distro path/dist/folder

Usage, Set intermediary folder location

If you experience an error regarding distro-separate (or just have a preference), you can use a known path by supplying --distro-separate <location> on the command line.

node node_modules/minundy.js/src/minundy.js watch --infolder path/html/to/watch  --distro path/dist/folder --distro-separate path/dist/single/file 

Usage, Build Only

node minundy.js just-build --w path/html/to/watch  --distro path/dist/folder --distro-separate path/dist/single/file 

Usage, Multiple Watch

# combine files from multiple roots into single templates.js
# WARN: this COULD overwrite files. Unique across folders isn't managed

node node_modules/minundy.js/src/minundy.js watch  --root /User/absolute/path --infolder path/files/a --infolder path/files/b --infolder path/files/c --distro-separate path/single/files/built --distro path/js-distro

Usage, Relative from Current Working Directy (CWD)

	node node_modules/minundy.js/src/minundy.js watch --infolder path/files/templates_v1 --infolder path/files/templates_v2 --infolder path/files/templates_v3 --distro some-dist/path/files/templates

Debug

Add the --debug <Number> flag to emit logging statments. Set --debug 5 to get all messages, including console.debug

Features

• Common root with --root <location> flag
• ---distro-separate is a temporary system folder as default configuration. Eases setup burden
• Action specific commands watch & just-build
• Builds only deltas during watch. Improves build speed.
• --silent flag
• Debugging flag --debug is a numerical level, which provide greater granularity
• Relative to CWD at execution time, not script location
• Renamed --watch to --infolder
• Automatic absolute path checking and preservation --distro /var/app/location --infolder some/relative/location
• logging verbosity support via colorlogjs

Distrubtion via yarn, npm and Github

	yarn add --flat minundy.js

	npm install minundy.js

yarn add --flat https://github.com/gtzilla/minundy.js

Target Specific Commit or Release in Github

Target release 1.0.1, which is commit cf972ab89bac3f69fb29a01648055db64ef2a29d

yarn add --flat https://github.com/gtzilla/minundy.js/archive/cf972ab89bac3f69fb29a01648055db64ef2a29d.tar.gz

Tips on Usage

Add a scripts section to your package.json. I prefer yarn watch for monitoring HTML / JS during development. Replace below PATHs with your own paths.

"scripts":{
	"watch":"node node_modules/minundy.js/src/minundy.js watch --debug 6 --infolder server_path/to_static/js-view-templates/ 
	--distro server_path/to_static-dist/js-view-templates/"
}

By default, I provoke the most verbose response with --debug 6, but if I need less screen output, I can always yarn watch --silent to suppress all logging.