Nirodha

Nirodha (Pali, Sanskrit; Tibetan 'gog pa) — literally refers to the absence or extinction of a given entity. As the third of the four noble truths, it refers specifically to the cessation of dukkha (suffering) and its causes; it is commonly used as a synonym for nirvana. (from Wikipedia)

A node.js website builder which compiles and minifies sets of included libraries for quickly building websites and eliminates the pain of keeping track of javascript and css libraries.

Nirodha is a simple command line application which I've developed to facilitate the quick creation and deployment of websites. The main goal of this project is to simplify javascript library management and css inclusion for developing websites quickly.

Installing:

Clone the repository and run npm install.

Quick Examples:

After cloning

There are two steps that need to be taken after installing Nirodha. Copy the settings_template.json file into a settings.json file and set the path to nirodha to the correct path which you have downloaded it to.

Then add the nirodha directory into your local path so that you can execute the nirodha file from anywhere. Now you can execute the following examples.

Creating a new project

nirodha -c project_name

Creating a new view from inside a project

From inside of a project directory:

nirodha -c view second_view

Creates a new view inside the project called second_view.html

Serving the project assets

From inside a project directory:

nirodha -s

Starts a web server that will serve all of the libraries from the lib directory in the nirodha root, as well as serving the assets that are in the custom directory of the project.

Deploying a project

From inside the project directory:

nirodha -d index

Compiles the index view for deployment. This will take all of the referenced js and css files, put them into one consolidated file, and then minify those assets.

You can also run

nirodha -d

by itself, this will deploy all of the views in the directory.

'Watching' a project

From inside the project directory:

nirodha -w

This will look for changes to the file system and run a deploy when any of the project files change. This is useful for embedding nirodha projects into other projects and serving the files without constantly redeploying from the commandline.

Purpose

I created Nirodha to be a simple website generator and compiler to eliminate some of the pain in developing client side javascript and minifying and deploying the libraries. I didn't want to use source maps, but I did want compiled minified js and css on my web server. Using Nirodha, I can manage all of my libraries in one place, make quick references to them in the html view, and deploy all of those files with one command.

How it works

Nirodha projects will pull js and css files from both the libs folder from the Nirodha libs directory as well as from the custom folder inside each of the projects. By putting all of your js and css files in one of these two places (based on whether its a shared libary or not), you can add a reference to them in the json file that describes the view. When the view is served via nirodha, those includes will be injected into the html files for you. When you have finished developing on your uncompressed source files, run the niroddha -d $view command to compile the view into an html file that references your now minified assets. The structure of the json file should look like the included example (see the example folder for details).

License

This software is licensed under the MIT license: The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013-2014, Brent Jameson

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