bracks-cli v5.0.3
#bracks-cli
bracks command line interface. If you don't know what bracks style document is, please read bracks-parser.
#####Install
Please use npm install -g bracks-cli. -g because it is a command line utility and is preferred to be exposed globally. Then, run bracks -v to make sure that it has been installed successfully. If you encounter with a problem or getting EACCES error, please read fixing-npm-permissions. If still not successful, please mention that in the issues. It will be responded back as fast as possible.
#####How to use
You can use bracks either by manually run it whenever you want and pass the -o (flag for output), or you can have it watch the provided bracks directory by passing the -w (flag for watch).
If you run it with -o, here is how you can use it:
Please create a directory and name it bracks. Then, put all html or ejs files that are written in a bracks syntax in this direcory. Files can be located in sub-direcories. It doesn't matter. The parser will find them, convert them all to html or ejs, and pipe the result documents to the provided destination. The parser presumes everything under bracks directory is written in a bracks style. As a result, they all being converted to html and/or ejs and being piped to the provided target directory.
If you run it with -w, here is how you can use it:
Instead of writing all files completely and then pass them to bracks, you can have it watch the provided bracks directory. By running it this way, upon any changes in any files under the given bracks directory, the parser parses the files, converts them all to html or ejs (whatever the original file extension is), and pipes the result documents to the provided target directory. Please notice here, in this mode, if the parser doesn't find any errors, nothing will be shown on the console in order to avoid disrupting the flow of development. So, if you don't see any errors on the console after you saved your file, you can have a pretty good confidence that changes were being transferred correctly to the corresponding file under the provided target directory.
#####List of command line options
The complete list of bracks command line options:
bracks -o <path to bracks directory> <target directory>example:
bracks -o /home/yourproj/bracks /home/yourproj/viewsbracks -w <path to bracks directory> <target directory>example:
bracks -w /home/yourproj/bracks /home/yourproj/viewsbracks -v(show the current version of the app)bracks -h(show the help menu)
#####Example of a bracks style html document
index.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
html[
c/[your comment]/c
head[title[your page title]title]head
body[
h1[explore your mind]h1
b[your bold text]b
div(id="yourdiv" class="yourdivclass")[
a(href="https://www.google.com")[link to google]a
ul(style="list-style-type:disc")[
li[item1]li
li[item2]li
li[a(href="https://www.google.com")[link to google]a]li
]ul
]div
div[
p[it is a samp s script footer paragraph tester]p
]div
]body
]html#####Example of a bracks style ejs document
index.ejs:
<!DOCTYPE html>
html[
head[
title[your page title]title
link(rel="stylesheet" href="/stylesheets/style.css")/]
meta(charset="utf-8")/]
]head
body(class="%= page %]")[
[% include partials/template/header.ejs %]
section(class="layout")[
div(class="primary")[
%- include partials/content/home-page.ejs -%
]div
p[explore your mind]p
aside(class="secondary")[
%- include partials/content/proj-page.ejs %]
]aside
]section
[% include partials/template/footer.ejs %]
]body
]html