frontender
v0.0.3
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Easy way to work with frontend files (such as html, css, js) via node.js
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Frontender
This is just a binding for popular compiling extensions for frontend (like stylus or jade) with some additional functionality (like caching).
Usage
Just add frontender
into your packages.json and write something like this in your code.
var Frontender = require("./frontender/frontender");
Frontender.basedir = "./javascripts/";
Frontender.requireModule("uglify", { compress: true });
Frontender.compile("editor.js", function (code) {
console.log("Compiled code: + " + code);
});
Modules
Since it's just a binding you have to add modules dependencies by yourself (good news: you shouldn't require them). Each module has his own specific options but there are some globals.
basedir
(default: frontenders basedir) - basedir for file searchingcache
(default:false
) - if cache files
Uglify
The UglifyJS module for .js
files.
This module not only collects and compresses them but also adds require
function similar to node.js (with namespacing and module.exports
).
compress
(default:false
) - if compress outputcomments
(default:true
) - if keep comments
Requirement: uglify-js 2.x
Stylus
Simple Stylus module for .styl
and .stylus
files.
Requirement: stylus >= 0.31.0
Jade
Jade is available both client and server side and module is suitable for both options.
compress
(default:false
) - if compress outputraw
(default:false
) - if return raw file (function will be returned otherwise)
Requirement: jade >= 0.28.0 (for raw === false
only)