Feature request: Command line build tool

[kristerkari]

I know that the plugin setup and configuring social share buttons is quite easy at the moment, but it would be nice to have a command line tool to easily configure and select social services and build custom unmin/min versions of the plugin.

[dbushell]

I agree!

I don't have much experience with build tools though. I was initially thinking of a web interface like Modernizr.com to select widgets and build a custom script. Perhaps the web interface uses the command line tool underneath. Do you have any suggestions where to start?

[kristerkari]

There are many options for modern build tools. I have been using node.js and Cake myself recently (because of Coffeescript and some node plugins).

I'll see if I can find some articles related to using different build tools, but maybe you could have a look at these HTML5 boilerplate build tools:

Ant https://github.com/h5bp/ant-build-script

Rake https://github.com/h5bp/rake-build-script

Node https://github.com/h5bp/node-build-script

[kristerkari]

More links: Intro to Jake - JavaScript build tool for Node.js Node.js as a build script JavaScript Build Tools? - Stack Overflow

[andrewrjones]

grunt would be ideal for this. Used by a lot of JS projects, including jQuery and Modernizr.

I've got some experience with grunt, so may be able to give this a go.

Creating a web interface like Modernizr would also be very cool. Maybe I can look at how Modernizr builds this.

[tmort]

+! for @andrewrjones Grunt idea. I'll see if I can get that implemented in v2.1