Kintsugi

A very opinionated and batteries-included application development toolkit comprising existing Javascript frameworks. Kintsugi combines the best of many tools to create a cohesive system to manage large and complex applications that are broken down into many packages. In other words, Kintsugi is to Gulp / Grunt as Google's Repo is to git.

Phases of a Project

Kintsugi manages the development process into build lifecycle phases. These are:

Initialization

• Scaffold project with sample packages

• Setup environment

• Install dependencies

  k init k init -g angular2 k init -g react-redux k init -g react-mobservable

Development

• Create project symlinks for subset of project and dependencies

• Watch file changes and transpile source code for subset of project and dependencies

• Fire up Webpack Dev Server to create in-memory bundle(s)

  k dev k dev foo k dev foo -d 2

Install New Dependent Package

To install dependent package for a specific pacakge, do this inside the package's directory. Every time a NEWER package is installed, all the project's packages dependency versions will be updated.

cd package-a
k install foo bar baz@0.5.0

Scaffold

• Scaffold new package in the project

  k new foo

Package

• Build subset of packages or entire project

• Bundle with Webpack

  k build

Test

• Watch test file changes and transpile test code

• Run tests against the transpilation

  k test

Publish

• Publish artifacts to npm repository (changed)

• Publish artifacts to file share as tarball

  k publish