sponge-rod v3.10.1

Sponge Rod

What is Sponge Rod?

Sponge Rod is a cli tool that build your assets css, js and images.

Installation

• Use npm install --save-dev sponge command in your terminal to install the dependency.
• Also gulp-cli must be installed in your computer. To do that, use npm install -g gulp-cli.

Commands

• node node_modules/.bin/sponge [-h|--help] - Show command list.
• node node_modules/.bin/sponge init - Create file sponge.config.js.
• node node_modules/.bin/sponge sass - Compile the css file.
• node node_modules/.bin/sponge sass:watch - Compile the css file on every changes of sass file.
• node node_modules/.bin/sponge scripts - Compile the js file.
• node node_modules/.bin/sponge scripts:watch - Compile the js file on every changes of source js file.
• node node_modules/.bin/sponge build:views - Apply gulp-useref plugin and minify css and js files.
• node node_modules/.bin/sponge build:images - Optimize the file size of image and move the output file in 'build_images destination' provided of config file.

• node node_modules/.bin/sponge build:fonts - Just move the fonts in build_fonts destination provided of config file.

• node node_modules/.bin/sponge watch - Run commands node node_modules/.bin/sponge sass:watch and node node_modules/.bin/sponge scripts:watch.

• node node_modules/.bin/sponge delete:dist - Remove dist folder.
• node node_modules/.bin/sponge build:dist - Run commands node node_modules/.bin/sponge delete:dist, node node_modules/.bin/sponge sass, node node_modules/.bin/sponge scripts, node node_modules/.bin/sponge build:views, node node_modules/.bin/sponge build:images and node node_modules/.bin/sponge build:fonts.

Suggestion

I suggest to install npx node package in your local machine to execute the command simple.

Instead of for example node node_modules/.bin/sponge watch, you can achieve that with this very simple command npx sponge watch. Pretty cool ha!

Features

• Sponge Rod used autoprefixer, csscomb and merge media query plugins after compile the sass file into css file.
• It used webpack comes from webpack-stream plugin.
• It decrease the file size of images without change the quality.

Sponge Rod configuration schema.

sass

Required

• srcarray|string - Source files to be compiled.
• deststring - Output destination.

Optional

• callbackfunction - This will be trigger after the sass command execute.
• optionsjson - The option of gulp.src function.
• commandstring - It would override the sass command.
• watch_commandstring - It would override the sass:watch command.
• notifyboolean - Show toast message after sass command task completed.

scripts

Required

• entriesjson - Key is to be filename and the source file to be compiled.
• deststring - Output destination.

Optional

• callbackfunction - This will be trigger after the scripts command execute.
• optionsjson - The option of gulp.src function.
• commandstring - It would override the scripts command.
• watch_commandstring - It would override the scripts:watch command.
• notifyboolean - Show toast message after scripts command task completed.

build_views

Required

• srcarray|string - Source files to be compiled.
• deststring - Output destination.

Optional

• callbackfunction - This will be trigger after the build:views command execute.
• optionsjson - The option of gulp.src function.
• commandstring - It would override the build:views command.
• notifyboolean - Show toast message after build:views command task completed.

build_images

Required

• srcarray|string - Source files to be compiled.
• deststring - Output destination.

Optional

• callbackfunction - This will be trigger after the build:images command execute.
• optionsjson - The option of gulp.src function.
• commandstring - It would override the build:images command.
• use_flattenboolean - Make the output files flatten.
• notifyboolean - Show toast message after build:images command task completed.

build_fonts

Required

• srcarray|string - Source files to be compiled.
• deststring - Output destination.

Optional

• callbackfunction - This will be trigger after the build:fonts command execute.
• optionsjson - The option of gulp.src function.
• commandstring - It would override the build:fonts command.
• use_flattenboolean - Make the output files flatten.
• notifyboolean - Show toast message after build:fonts command task completed.

build

Optional

• callbackfunction - To be call after build task completed.
• notifyboolean - Show toast message after build command task completed.

unbuild

Optional

• dirstring|glob - Files or directory to be delete.
• callbackfunction - To be call after unbuild task completed.
• notifyboolean - Show toast message after unbuild command task completed.

Example

Checkout the example and test it in your local machine.

LICENSE

Sponge Rod is released under the MIT Licence.