alien

Require

• rsync (http://rsync.samba.org/)

Installation

$ npm install alien -g

Quick Start

before we run the commands of alien, we should have a project first

create a project

(directory structure)

project
├─┬src
│ ├─┬scripts
│ │ └──...
│ └─┬styles
│   └──...
└─.config

you can checkout (https://github.com/purplecalm/alien.git) to get a test case

start a server

before start server, make sure the working directory contains project

$ alien server

server has three modes, [SRC|DEV|PRD]

• SRC: source mode, return every file, esay to debug
• DEV: package mode, return files' package
• PRD: product mode, return minified code

$ alien server -m DEV

pack

packing exports files

(File .config) e.g

{
    "exports": [
        "scripts/index.js",
        "styles/index.css"
    ]
}

before run pack, make sure the project is working directory

$ alien pack

result

project
├─┬dev(package directory)
│ ├─┬scripts
│ │ └──[e-mail]
│ └─┬styles
│   └──[e-mail]
├─┬src
│ ├─┬scripts
│ │ └──...
│ └─┬styles
│   └──...
└─.config

min

minify exports files

(File .config) e.g

{
    "exports": [
        "scripts/index.js",
        "styles/index.css"
    ]
}

before run min, make sure the project is working directory

$ alien min

result

project
├─┬prd(product directory)
│ ├─┬scripts
│ │ └──[e-mail]
│ └─┬styles
│   └──[e-mail]
├─┬ver(versions directory)
│ ├─┬scripts
│ │ └──index.js.ver (bc23723a6ebdd528a774264d37173293)
│ └─┬styles
│   └──index.css.ver (db47495f5329bd6a6df53228034d4746)
├─┬src
│ ├─┬scripts
│ │ └──...
│ └─┬styles
│   └──...
└─.config

sync

sync all package to target server

make sure you installed rsync (find it here http://rsync.samba.org/)

set dev environment in .config (File .config) e.g

{
    "dev": {
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "path": "/home/q/www/project/"
    }
}

before run sync

• make sure the project is working directory
• make sure you packed your project before

$ alien sync

we also run pack and sync together

$ alien pack && alien sync

help

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