[Development-Progress] Comfortable development with grunt and coffee-script

[frissdiegurke]

Hey guys

I've written a gruntfile to be able to write my plugins with coffee-script and have live-reload for my theme(s)

Here you go: NodeBB Grunt Development

To enable live-reload you need to install my new plugin: nodebb-plugin-livereload

Code on, FDG

[psychobunny]

Great! Looking forward to seeing what else you come up with

[frissdiegurke]

For now I'm coming up with a new version of the grunt-script containing new major features:

Version 0.2

• improved configuration
• added build-in compilation of any .coffee-files within modules to equivalent .js-files
• moved configuration to json-file

Since this seems to be a nice tool for developers you may pin it somewhere? Would be

[frissdiegurke]

Since I'm a german guy it would be great if you notify me about wrong english you come across within the README.md thereby it gets more readable

Thanks!

[psychobunny]

Added it to our wiki https://github.com/designcreateplay/NodeBB/wiki

[julian]

When I discover a Gruntfile.js in a pull request

[frissdiegurke]

[frissdiegurke]

Version 0.3

• added npm publish and git (add/commit/push) + any shell-command before commit as grunt publ:MODULENAME:COMMIT-MSG:PUSH (all parameters optional)
• Bump

[frissdiegurke]

Version 0.4

• added grunt init command to copy and initialize a new plugin/theme from drafts.
  This works basically by copying existing files and replace occurrences like @{id} and @{name} within those and their file-names.

Btw: is anybody except me using this awesome build-tool? :wink2: It should also speed up the progress of creating plugins/themes with basic js if you're to afraid of using a comfortable language

[julian]

@frissdiegurke Possibly -- for themes I use this instead: https://github.com/designcreateplay/nodebb-theme-quickstart

[psychobunny]

Btw: is anybody except me using this awesome build-tool?

https://www.npmjs.org/package/nodebb-plugin-livereload

24 downloads in the past month shows that there are a few people using it