boh

http://adriancooney.github.io/boh

boh is a simple, smart build tool. As oxymoronic as that sounds, it works exactly the way you expect. Boh has one command and very few options to do one thing, build your projects. You define your build rules at the top of your files and boh will automatically find them and execute them. For example, let's say you want to browserify your Javacript files in your project:

Install boh:

$ npm install -g boh

Define your build rules:

// boh build: browserify -e $this -o build/bundle.js
 
var react = require("react"),
    ...

Now, run boh in your project root or wherever the file is contained:

$ boh
Running boh in the current directory.

	src/index.js:build ✓ (494ms)

Build complete successfully.

Congratulations, your files are built! If you want to automatically rebuild on the fly, run it with the --watch flag:

$ boh --watch
Running boh in the current directory.

	src/index.js:build ✓ (494ms)

Build complete successfully.

boh is watching for changes..

boh is intended to be used for fast prototyping so you don't have to spend hours tweaking your build tool to get it up and running. It's intended to be a quick, simple but smart solution until your project matures and requires a more advanced build tool. See http://adriancooney.github.io/boh for more information.

Plugins

You can develop your own plugins for boh. To use them, you simply publish it to npm with the prefix boh-, install it and boh will do the rest from there. It will automatically require any plugins installed and execute them accordingly.

Plugin API

The following functions make up the simple boh plugin API. colors work too. See here for a more in depth explanation of plugin development.

plugin#emit( event, [data...])

Emit a plugin event that is handled via the reporter.

plugin#debug( ... )

Write a debug log. The messages can be seen by running boh with the enviornment variable DEBUG set to boh:plugin:<plugin name>. e.g. DEBUG=boh:plugin:<plugin name> boh.

plugin#log( ... )

Write a message to the stdout. These are only shown if the user specifies the verbose options (-v).

plugin#execute( cwd, script, callback )

Execute a shell script. cwd (string) is the current working directory of the script. script (string) is the script to be executed. callback( err, output ) (function) the callback to be executed on complete.