CakePop!

CakePop is a set of Node.js build helpers and CoffeeScript Cake extensions. It provides various utility wrappers for bash shell commands and other Node.js binary process executions.

Notwithstanding it's CoffeeScript-friendliness, CakePop runs off of real JavaScript without CoffeeScript dependencies, and is thus appropriate for use in pure JavaScript code (e.g., with Jakefiles).

See the API documentation for full information, or CakePop's own Cakefile for some example usage.

Documentation is presently in source comments in cakepop.coffee. While not ideal, the source is quite readable. There will be a more friendly version in the future.

Warning: The library is currently undergoing a lot of restructuing and change, so expect the API to drastically change until things settle down. Breaking changes will be versioned (with git tags and in NPM), but that's about it for now.

Installation

To get the library:

$ npm install cakepop

CakePop does not install dependencies for tasks that are shell-invoked, to keep the library small and let the user install the proper version of a library (like coffeelint). So, you will need manual installations for the following:

• CoffeeScript Build Tasks: npm install coffee-script
• Coffeelint: npm install coffeelint

Basic Usage

Here are some common Cakefile tasks that CakePop can help with.

Exec / spawn a bash process:

utils = require("cakepop").utils

task "hello1", "Exec 'hello world'", ->
  utils.exec "echo Hello World"

task "hello2", "Spawn 'hello world'", ->
  utils.spawn "echo", ["Hello World"]

Build CoffeeScript files to JavaScript:

builder = new (require("cakepop").CoffeeBuild)()

task "source:build", "Build CoffeeScript to JavaScript.", ->
  builder.build [
    "foo.coffee"
    { "src_dir": "dest_dir" }
  ]

See the API documentation for more.

License

CakePop is Copyright 2012 Ryan Roemer. Released under the MIT License.