The h5bp build script now has three versions, the main one being the [ant-build-script][]. This project is the node version, and it uses Grunt as a build tool.

It is packaged as a grunt plugin and provides you a bunch of tasks and helpers to help improve the performance of your site/app in a production environment.

Description

This node/grunt-based build script tries to be as close as possible to the [ant-build-script][], a really great project you should check out.

It is still in early stage of development, but it'll get better and better, based on your feedbacks.

Quick start

Fancy one line install:

# see the gist: https://gist.github.com/2359881
$ curl https://raw.github.com/gist/2359881/install.sh | sh

Slightly less fancier

$ npm install https://github.com/h5bp/node-build-script/tarball/master -g
$ h5bp help
$ h5bp init

Developing locally

$ git clone git://github.com/h5bp/node-build-script.git
$ cd node-build-script
$ npm link

Features

• Concats / Compresses JS
• Concats / Compresses CSS
• Inline CSS imports via
• Basic to aggressive html minification (via [html-minfier][])
• Optimizes JPGs and PNGs (with jpegtran & optipng)
• Renames JS/CSS to prepend a hash of their contents for easier versioning
• Revises the file names of your assets so that you can use heavy caching
• Updates your HTML to reference these new hyper-optimized CSS + JS files
• Experimental dom-based (with JSDOM) build system.
• May rerun the build script on file changes (grunt's watch task ❤)
• May automatically reload the page in your browsers whenever watched files change, through some [socket.io] magic.

Getting started

• Install the package
• Check out the extensive grunt documentation, specifically the [Getting Started][] section.
• Learn more about Usage and Configuration
• Look at the available tasks
• Test out the experimental dom-based build system.

Project information

• Source: http://github.com/h5bp/node-build-script
• Docs: http://github.com/h5bp/node-build-script/wiki
• Issues: http://github.com/h5bp/node-build-script/issues

Run the tests

$ npm test

[Getting Started]: https://github.com/cowboy/grunt/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#readme) [JSDOM]: https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom [ant-build-script]: https://github.com/h5bp/ant-build-script [socket.io]: http://socket.io [html-minifier]: https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier