CLI

[yoshuawuyts]

having one would be grand

[marionebl]

Is this a "help wanted" issue?

[yoshuawuyts]

@marionebl ooh, if you're offering to help - yes please!

edit: To elaborate: my original idea for bankai was as follows:

• create a "batteries included" Node streams based compilation solution, that can be plugged to the http module with no friction
• have a dev mode which performs live reloading and the like
• have a prod mode which optimizes all bundles (e.g. use expose optimizations as browserify transform, plugin bendrucker/bundleify#5)
• create a standalone CLI that can be used to interface with bankai if no server is used
• allow the standalone CLI to write all files to a directory so they can be deployed to production
• allow bankai to be extensible so people can use their own transforms and plugins if they so desire

[marionebl]

I do! I'll shell out a minimal prototype as common ground for discussion this weekend; a sentence or two about the primary usecase you have in mind would help, though! 🚀

[yoshuawuyts]

Wooh, rad! I updated my previous post with what I had envisioned, let me know how that sounds to you.

Probably worth noting is that livereload should probs be its own endpoint so the script can be served ✨

[marionebl]

Sounds good to me. To clarify things, I understood the following:

• the cli provides means to start a server (http) or dump artifacts on disk (fs); think bankai start vs bankai build
• in the fs case, there would be distinct one-off and watch modes
• as a library, bankai becomes agnostic to the question if it streams to http or fs or at least learns to cater for both
• NODE_ENV enables different default configurations
• cli and programatic interface allow for full customization
• livereload should be added using the same port on a distinct endpoint

I'd begin with the bankai start bit, get livereload working and integrate options to allow for the same level of configurability the programatic integration currently allows.

That should sum up to a big-enough PR to get an impression on how to collaborate on this. What do you think?

[yoshuawuyts]

Ooh, yeah I like bankai start & bankai build. Your summary sounds excellent; real excited to see this happen! 🚲

The only suggestion I have is that perhaps in addition to NODE_ENV it'd be nice to allow toggling based on a direct flag (e.g. --optimize or similar). Not too fussed to get a first pass perfect though, but I like the idea of having all CLI switches be enumerable in the API itself. Heaps thanks again! 😁

[yoshuawuyts]

Ooh, also we could totes turn this into something closer to https://twitter.com/_developit/status/759178282570887168 in the long term hah

[yoshuawuyts]

Welp, we got a CLI now 😁