runfile

🚧 A minimal alternative for GNU Makefile. You can use Shell commands, External tools in your OS directly and synchronously with Runfile.

Additionally it's brought with built-in ES2015 support through Babel.

Install

npm install -g runfile --production

Example

An example Runfile

task('clean', () => {
  rm('-rf', 'testFolder')
  rm('-rf', 'testSource')
})
 
// or run external tools
task('deploy', () => {
  var message = argv._[1] || 'update'
  exec('git add -A')
  exec(`git commit -m "${message}"`)
  exec('git push origin master')
})
 
task('default', ['clean', 'deploy'])
 
// alia `run path` to external command `echo $PATH`
// to print your $PATH info in console
// a short-hand for one-line task
alias('path', 'echo $PATH')
// or a sequence of commands
alias('async', [
  'echo Hi',
  'sleep 1',
  'echo After 1s'
])

then in your favorite terminal:

run clean
run deploy

Run tasks synchronously

task('timeout', (callback) => {
  setTimeout(() => {
    console.log('timeout')
    callback()
  }, 3000)
})
 
task('log', ['timeout'], () => {
  console.log(argv)
})
 
task('default', ['log'])
 
// then `run`

Run non-block synchronous task

Besides exec() and built-in shell commands, async/await also allows you to write async code in sync way (looks like).

import fs from 'fs'
 
function readFile (name) {
  return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
    fs.readFile(name, 'utf-8', function (err, data) {
      if (err) {
        reject(err)
      }
      resolve(data)
    })
  })
}
 
task('async', async () => {
  let data = await readFile('Runfile')
  console.log(data)
})

Trigger a task by hand

task('emit', () => {
  emit('deploy')
})

Running Node executable inside ./node_modules/.bin

// just a short-hand for `./node_modules/.bin/webpack`
task('webpack', () => {
  const webpack = npm('webpack --hot --inline')
  if (process.platform === 'win32') {
    exec(`set NODE_ENV=development && ${webpack}`)
  } else {
    exec('NODE_ENV=development ${webpack}')
  }
})

Run task from global Runfile

Sometimes you repeat some common operations so you will always need a Runfile stored globally to access from anywhere.

// find task `git` in `~\.runfile\Runfile`
run git -g
// alias
run :git

License

MIT.