ie8-cli

IE8 CLI is a Tooling for project Development With IE8 Compability.

It is 2019. The users using IE8 is not that much now. Developling this tool seems not a smart move. But, I need to support ie8 (at work). I need a tool to maintain what I have figured out during development. So, this is the reason why it comes out.

IE8 will be completely abandoned someday. And this tool will be totally useless at that time. But, since it uses latest tools such as typescript and webpack4 (which means the projects generated by the tool doesn't need to change much when you decide not to support ie8), it will helps before that time.

This tool is for creating projects with ie8 compability by using preset boilerplates. It integrates several tools:

• sanjs (a framework kindof like vue)
• anujs (A mini React-like framework that is extremely compatible with React16)
• typescript
• webpack4

I spent a lot of time figuring out how to use latest webpack tools in ie8 development. With this tool, you can develop with webpack 4.x, which means that all proposals is usable only if you set up corresponding babel plugins.

note: there still are some several unsupport features:

• getter / setter: the defineProperty is wierd in ie8. Please keep in mind that in ie8 defineProperty can only be used with dom instances during development.

Getting Started

install:

npm install -g ie8-cli
# OR 
yarn global add ie8-cli

Create a project:

ie8 create my-project

all options of command create (which can be accessed by ie8 create -h):

Usage: create [options] <app-name>

create a new project powered by ie8-cli

Options:
  --type <value>     Boilerplate type, default to `es`
  -d, --default      Skip prompts and use default preset
  -f, --force        Overwrite target directory if it exists
  -i, --install      Install dependencies after creating project
  --exclude <items>  Exclude files in target directory that you do not wanna cover while merging
  -h, --help         output usage information

The alternatives of option type are as below:

value	description
es	using es6 (default setting)
san	using san (https://github.com/baidu/san)
anujs	using anujs (https://github.com/RubyLouvre/anu)

other options

--exclude

use it if you want to excludes some files when merging

Usage:

• seperate the filepaths with comma
• filepaths can be file names or directory path
• it only works under merge mode (when you create a project in an existed directory)

ie8 create my-project --exclude=package.json,config
# exludes files: my-project/package.json my-project/config/* 

Extensions

You can choose needed extesions when you create a project. Preset default contains all of them as below:

• typescript
• san-store (only show when you choose type san)
• tslint
• eslint
• less
• polyfills（ie8, fetch-ie8, fetch-jsonp-polyfill, dom4, console-polyfill）

You can choose Munually select features if you want to customize by your own.

Update/Upgrade ie8-cli:

ie8 update

Development

node bin/ie8

Requirement

• node >= 8.9