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coffeescript, jade, stylus -> js, css asset manager? node.js

I work in coffeescript, jade and stylus.

My application serves two different "one page apps". For these apps I serve all asset in the initial payload.

I want to group, compile, and concatenate all coffeescript files and jade templeates into a single js asset and stylus files into a single css asset for each "one page app".

Then I can just leave my /public/js and /public/css alone and they will always have the current js and css asset files for the two different apps.

Has anyone setup a workflow like this before? Any ideas how I could do this?

Through research I found the process written about here but they don't say how they did it.
http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-trello-tech-stack/

Solution

  • You can do this with JS pretty simply with Express + Stitch / StitchUp

    Sample config: https://gist.github.com/1094412

    An alternative is also Interleave:

    http://www.distractable.net/coding/javascript-builds-using-interleave

    And the options for stylus middleware should sort you out for your CSS: http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/docs/middleware.html

    There's also a myriad of options over here:

    http://toolbox.no.de/search?q=asset