buildless

I was procrastinating and created this tool for my simple static websites.

Development HTTP server and deployment tool for static websites.

• local http server
• rebuild on fs changes
• templates via EJS
• configuration per environment
• deployment to S3

This tool will not ever do the following:

• output processed source files into a folder on a fs
• it will not concatenate or merge source files into one
• it will not deal with JavaScript modules

Basically, this is a simple preprocessor for static files which does not pollute your file system with build files.

Usage

Create .buildless.js in your project folder:

module.exports = {
  port: 8080,
  environment: {
    dev: {
      ENDPOINT: 'dev'
    },
    prod: {
      ENDPOINT: 'prod'
    },
  },
  deployment: {
    s3: {
      bucket: 'orkon-test',
    },
  },
};

environment defines variables which are available to the EJS template engine. deployment defines how the files will be deployed after they are processed by EJS.

Start a server in the local folder:

bls start [-s dev]

Deploy static folder

bls deploy [-s dev]

<%= ENDPOINT %>