uRequire ResourceConverter

A uRequire ResourceConverter that executes a nodejs child_process.exec CLI command against each matched FileResources.

It returns the stdout of the execution, which becomes the FileResource's converted property.

Its considered an Abstract or helper ResourceConverter:

a) By default filez is [], meaning no bundle source filenames are matched.

b) Also the cmd property (i.e the child_process.exec 'command' param) is undefined. The 'cmd' RC property can be:

• a String, which is prepended to the srcFilename. Eg if cmd: 'ls -s' the command to execute will be ls -s 'someSrcFilename.ext'.

• a Function(srcFilename, fileResource), returning the final command to execute (with this bound to RC instance).

The options object of child_process.exec is naturally supported, having only cwd defaulting to bundle: path.

Simple usage:

   resources: [
        ...
        [ 'exec', {
            $cmd: 'ls -s',
            $filez: ['only/these/files/**/*.*', '!not/these/**/*']
            env: { envkey: 'envvalue'} }]
        ...
   ]

Note that this will use the 'exec' RC its self - not very safe if for eg. you decide later on you need some other usage for exec along with this. You should instead use an extended / subclass of 'exec'.

Subclassing exec

You can provide your own exec-based ResourceConverter (i.e extend 'exec', without hassling the original 'exec') like this:

    function(lookup) {
        return _.extend( lookup('exec').clone(), {
          name: 'lessc',
          filez: '**/*.less',
          cmd: 'lessc --compress',
          convFilename: '.css'
        });
    };

This new 'lessc' RC will convert all *.less files into *.css in the bundle, using the exec RC underneath (which will be left intact). Note that this function can appear as-is in your bundle.resources or published as 'urequire-rc-lessc' and then referenced and further customized at resources.

If there is a main.less that imports all other .less files (as is usually the case), you simply also pass the srcMain RC property above or the users of lessc can reference & pass properties to the (perhaps node_modules/urequire-rc-lessc defined) RC like this:

    resources: [
        [ 'lessc', { $srcMain: 'style/main.less' }]
    ]

With a tiny bit of work, you could also pass all lessc CLI options like --compress (just turn cmd into a function that enumerates this.options and append them appropriately), see http://github.com/anodynos/urequire-rc-less/

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2014 Agelos Pikoulas ([email protected])

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