sd-builder

Opinionated builder for react web projects.

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This project is no longer developed, having been superseded by create-react-app.

Usage

• sd-builder dev sets up dev environment with auto-recompiling
• sd-builder build builds the project
• sd-builder config writes the app configuration to app-config.js

Main conventions

Html

• The builder expects there to be an app/main.html file, which is compiled into build/index.html. For now the compilation consists in a simple a copy/paste.

JS

• The builder expects there to be an app/main.jsx file, which is used as webpack's entry point. The generated bundle is written to build/_assets/js/app.js.

• Files are compiled by babel. It's up to the user to specify which plugins to use by installing and listing them in a .babelrc config file.

• npm modules listed in deps.json's js array are separated from the main bundle and compiled into build/_assets/js/vendor.js.

• During webpack's compilation NODE_PATH includes the app directory.

• It's possible to require / import .js, .jsx and .json files.

• Source maps are always generated.

Assets

• The content of the folder app/assets will be recursively copied into build/_assets.

CSS

• Files listed in deps.json's css array are bundled (concat) into build/_assets/css/vendor.css.

Fonts

• Files listed in deps.json's fonts array are copied (concat) into build/_assets/fonts.

Version

• the build generates a VERSION.txt file (written to build/VERSION.txt) with the following format:
  • if building in a git repository, [package.json version] - [git commit sha]
  • otherwise, [package.json version]

Changelog

• when a CHANGELOG.md file is present, it's copied to build/CHANGELOG.md

Configuration

Running sd-builder config a build/app-config.js file is generated, exporting one global variable, window.APP_CONFIG, which is a map of key-value pairs gathered from:

• the .env file when NODE_ENV=development
• environment variables prefixed by __APP_CONFIG__ file when NODE_ENV=production

You should add app-config.js script in your main.html file.

<script src="app-config.js"></script>

Build customization via build-time environment variables

At build time, the following environment variables can be used to customize the build:

• NODE_ENV: defaults to development
• EXEC_ENV: defaults to browser

The variables are:

• passed to gulp-preprocess when building main.html
• passed to webpack DefinePlugin when building js files

Example main.html build customization:

<!-- @if EXEC_ENV=='cordova' -->
<!--
    This ends up in the compiled index.html only when, in the build
    environment, process.env.EXEC_ENV === "cordova"
-->
<script src="cordova.js"></script>
<!-- @endif -->

Example js build customization:

console.log(process.env.EXEC_ENV);
/*
*   When in the build environment process.env.EXEC_ENV === "cordova", the above
*   line of code will be compiled into the line `console.log("cordova");`
*/

When NODE_ENV=production JS and CSS files are minified.