budo

budō

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This is a browserify development server inspired by beefy and wzrd, but with a stronger focus on incremental bundling, LiveReload (including CSS injection), and JavaScript injection (Chrome only).

Note that budo needs a copy of watchify installed. It can be either local (preferred) or global.

npm install budo watchify -g

Simple use, which builds to bundle.js on filesave:

#run watchify on port 9966
budo index.js --outfile bundle.js --verbose

Now open localhost:9966 to see the content in action.

To pretty-print in terminal, garnish, bistre or another ndjson-based stream can be used.

budo index.js -o bundle.js | garnish

See docs for more features including Chrome script injection.

This is still highly experimental, and so far only tested on OSX. PRs/suggestions/comments welcome. Props to @caspervonb for the early groundwork.

docs

• basic usage
• experimental features
• comparisons

usage

Details for budo command-line interface. Aside from the following options, all others are sent to browserify/watchify.

Usage:
    budo [entries] [opts]

Options:
    --outfile, -o   path to output bundle
    --port          the port to run, default 9966
    --live          enable LiveReload integration

Installing budo also comes with a budo-chrome binary for script injection. It is still experimental.

Usage:
    budo-chrome [entries] [opts]

Options:
    --outfile, -o   path to output bundle
    --open          open a new instance of Chrome
    --port          port to serve content, default 9966
    --remote-port   remote debugging port, default 9222

License

MIT, see LICENSE.md for details.