Brigadier

Simplistic JavaScript automation tool.

Syntax

Project file for Brigadier is a simple Node.js module with some instrumentation in global context.

You could use built-in Brigadier commands or just write any JavaScript code.

Tasks

Project should declare at least one task. Default one is default.

brigadier path/to/project

task('default',()=>{// Let's do something awesome by default!});

Of course, tasks could run each other, with optional configuration.

brigadier path/to/project work

task('work',()=>{run('talk',{blah: 'blah'});});task('talk',(config)=>{log(config);});

Configuration

Top-level task takes project.config configuration from command line.

brigadier path/to/project task --option=value --flag

task('task',(config)=>{// project.config.option === config.option === 'value'// project.config.flag === config.flag === true});

There is default configuration flag — verbose. It simply enables trace output.

brigadier path/to/project task --verbose

Commands

All built-in commands are synchronous. Unfortunately, there are no complete list with explanation yet.

taskrunranfailexit

infologtrace

copyreadwritefilesdirsexistsmkdirrmdirsymlink

backgroundexec

concateachinspectmap

Examples

Check example/project.js for inspiration.

API

varbrigadier=require('brigadier');brigadier.parse('path/to/project');brigadier.build('task');