Assets-bundler NPM

assets-bundler

bundles your assets. creates symbolic links for development and copies for production.

features

you can use the whole glob syntax in the src and dest pattern, as well as the glob-var variables starting with a colon :
in development, symbolic links are created, using glob-ln
in production, copies are created, using glob-cp

install

npm install assets-bundler -g

use

you can either use assets-bundler programmatically or via command-line:

node.js

var bundle = require('assets-bundler');

var opts = {
    src: __dirname + '/node_modules/:module/public',
    dest: __dirname + '/public/:module'
};

// async version
bundle(opts, function(err) {
  // all done
});

// or with the sync version
bundle.sync(opts);
// all done

command line

// use NODE_ENV for environment mode
assets-bundler --src node_modules/:module/public --dest public/assets/:module -rf

// run in 'production' mode: -> copy files and folders
assets-bundler  'node_modules/:module/public' 'public/assets/:module' -rf -e prod

// run in 'development' mode: -> symlinks
assets-bundler "node_modules/{wrap,widget,page}-*/" "lib/{wrap,widget,page}-*/" -rf -e dev

// run in 'development' mode: -> symlinks
assets-bundler --src '../glint-*' --dest 'node_modules/glint-*' -rf -e dev

options

assets-bundler -h

  Usage: assets-bundler [options] ["<src>" "<dest>"]

  Please use quotes when providing '<src>' and '<dest>'

  Options:

    -h, --help          output usage information
    -V, --version       output the version number
    -s, --src [value]   source path (don't forget to put it in quotes)
    -d, --dest [value]  destination path (don't forget to put it in quotes)
    -e, --env [value]   environment: "prod[uction]" or "dev[elopment]", default: "production"
    -f, --force         remove destination before the operation
    -r, --recursive     recursive copy

src

The source path. It can be relative or absolute.
When you don't provide an absolute path, an absolute path is created from the current working directory of the process using process.cwd().

dest

The destination path. It can be relative or absolute.
When you don't provide an absolute path, an absolute path is created from the current working directory of the process using process.cwd().

env

You can either set the env option (wins), or the environment variable NODE_ENV (lower precedence).

force

With force, assets-bundler does the job without moaning when switching the environment production, development.
The destiation always gets deleted before symlinking or copying, wether it is currently a link or file or folder.