Makets

Makets (Make TypeScript) is an ultra-light application and library bundling tool designed for use with the TruthStack.

Usage

Install globally with:

npm install makets -g

Or locally in your project with:

npm install makets --save

Place an empty file called make.ts in the root directory of your application. This will be your build script.

Build scripts are very simple and easy to write. Everything you need will be in the make.* namespace. In fact, Makets is built with itself, here is what Makets's make.ts file looks like, which builds Makets and publishes itself to the npm registry:

make.on("publish", async () =>
{
	make.directory("./bundle");
	make.copy("./build/make.js", "./bundle/main.js");
	make.copy("./build/make.d.ts", "./bundle/index.d.ts");
	
	make.publish({
		packageFileChanges: {
			main: "./main.js",
			scripts: {},
			bin: {
				makets: "./main.js"
			}
		}
	});
});

Getting Type-Safe Make.ts Files

There are a number of ways to do this, but in the case when you've installed make.ts locally, you can simply place a triple slash comment at the top if your file:

/// <reference types="makets" />

Execution

Makets operates on the concept of keywords. The script above uses one build keyword, "publish". There's no configuration necessary anywhere to setup keywords. Just trap them in a make.on("keyword", () => ... ) , and then specify them on the command line, like so:

makets publish (if installed globally)

npx makets publish (if installed locally)

You can specify multiple keywords from the command line, and can also pass multiple keywords to the make.on function.

Hang On ... Is This Executing TypeScript Directly??

Yes and no. It turns out that you don't really need any TypeScript-specific annotations in order to put together a build script. So when you pass a file called "make.ts" to makets, it just runs the contents of the file as JavaScript. Of course, if your script has TypeScript-specific syntax here, this won't work. (Note that you can also name your file "make.js", and it will use this as a fallback if a file called "make.ts" is not found).