skulk v0.0.9

Skulk

a group (bundle) of foxes

Design

Configurable support for factor-bundle, separate Browserify instance(s). Drop insert-css (not needed with split-css).

stand-alone client app

• dev: Browserify + watchify, Express serves assets + bundles. tiny-lr provides livereload updates
• prod: Generate bundles

integrated client app

• dev: Browserify + watchify, file serving handled externally, tiny-lr provides livereload updates
• prod: Generate bundles

client + server

• dev: Browserify + watchify, override file serving for bundles, tiny-lr provides livereload updates
• prod: build step once, run provided Express server

API

• multiple bundles
• factors
• css type - combined bundle, split

Implementation

• configured browserify bundles
• devmode / prodmode
• express server - serve static assets - serve bundles from memory - inject (configurable?) livereload script
• livereload server
• debug logging
• CSS splitter

• user-supplied config
• get presets from user
• merge supplied presets + config into one config
• get and merge all resulting bundle browserify (preset) configs result: top-level config, array of browserify bundler configs
• create browserify bundlers for each bundle config prod mode:
• execute each bundler once
• bundle output defaults to top-level output dir, but can be overriden dev mode:
• start tiny-lr
• inject watchify (as preset??)
• start (internal) express server if configured to do so - writes happen to memory instead of output dir(s) - inject-livereload middleware - express middleware to serve files

• bring-your-own server approach (for GTS) - write to disk as usual - send tiny-lr updates - inject livereloading start script in all bundles - also console.log that this is a debug bundle, and should not run in production

• presets/browserify plugins need a way to 'write' files on their own (skulk-supplied)

• skulk write function also sends livereload event/update

Skulk preset

• preset needs it's own config supplied
• preset needs access to global config

Other TODO

• Do something with cryptic Browserify "TypeError: Path must be a string" on missing deps