By-Write2JS

A Bystander plugin to auto-write compiled code to JavaScript files.

Note, for now, it has to be used in conjunction with by-coffeescript plugin, and it only works with CoffeeScript-to-Javascript compiled code.

Installation

To install by-write2js,

sudo npm install -g by-write2js

Options

bin : true to map a .bin.coffee file to a no extension file. (e.g. write2js.bin.coffee to write2.js)
binDir : a directory to save no extension bin files.
mapper : an array of key-value pairs to map CoffeeScript source files to output Javascript files. The key is a glob pattern, and the value is an array of arguments to pass to replace() method or a function that returns a bloolean value.
noWrite : an array of glob patterns for files to ignore.

By-Write2JS uses minimatch without matchBase option to match glob patterns.

Examples

Saving compiled files from src directory into lib directory, and .bin.coffee files into bin directory while ignoring files under ignore directory.

// .bystander config file
.....
.....
  "plugins" : ["by-coffeescript", "by-write2js"],
  "by" : {
    "write2js" : {
      "mapper" : ["**/src/*", [/src/i, "/lib/"]],
      "bin" : true,
      "binDir" : "./bin",
      "noWrite" : ["**/test/**"]
    }
  },
.....
.....

Note, .coffee will be automatically replaced with .js, and binDir will be resolved against the project root path, not the current working directory.

Broadcasted Events for further hacks

wrote2js : successfully wrote to the corresponding js file after a coffee compiled event
write2js error : failed to write to the js file
unlink error : failed to remove the given js file
js removed : removed the correspoding js file after a coffee File removed event

See the annotated source for details.

Running Tests

Run tests with mocha

make

License

By-Write2js is released under the MIT License. - see the LICENSE file