JS build systems and maven

[Colin Clark]

Ian,

The short answer is that we wanted a simple build process that helps  
with the following:

  * Minifying all our JavaScript and CSS files for distribution (for  
speed)
  * Building a single, concatenated file containing all Fluid  
JavaScript code (also for speed)
  * Building and zipping simple distribution package containing all  
Fluid code
  * Automatically validating of our code using JSLint

While the Maven JSTools Plugin you mention does some of these tasks,  
it doesn't seem to handle minification and concatenation unless I've  
overlooked something. More to the point, we found it much easier to  
write a simple Ant script to do this than continue to wrangle with  
Maven. It worked for us, but other projects will inevitably have  
different needs.

Colin

On 31-Mar-08, at 7:01 PM, Ian Boston wrote:
> I think I remember that Fluid were doing some work on build systems
> for JS using Ant,
> because Maven2 didnt do what was required, and was a pain to get
> running.
>
> Did you look at http://dev.abiss.gr/mvn-jstools/usage.html and if you
> did ..... what are the extra things that you are doing outside
> this... just out of interest ?
>
> Thanks
> Ian
>
>
>
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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org