The easiest way to compile JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
We want people to have fun building things for the web. There should be no hurdles between a great idea, and your first prototype. And once you're ready, it should be easy to package it up and share it online. That's Bankai: a tool that helps you build for the web. No configuration, and no hassle - that's our promise.
If this is your first time building something for the web, take a look at choojs/create-choo-app to help get a project setup from scratch ✨.
$ bankai <command> [entry] [options]
Commands:
build compile all files to dist/
inspect inspect the bundle dependencies
start start a development server
Options:
-d, --debug output lots of logs
-h, --help print usage
-q, --quiet don't output any logs
-v, --version print version
Examples:
Start a development server
$ bankai start index.js
Visualize all dependencies in your project
$ bankai inspect index.js
Compile all files in the project to disk
$ bankai build index.js
Running into trouble? Feel free to file an issue:
https://github.com/choojs/bankai/issues/new
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https://opencollective.com/chooBankai applies lots of optimizations to projects. Generally you won't need to care how we do this: it's lots of glue code, and not necessarily pretty. But it can be useful to know which optimizations we apply. This is a list:
- bundle-collapser: Remove all pathnames from inside the bundle, and replace them with IDs. This not only makes bundles smaller, it prevents details from your local dev setup leaking.
- common-shakeify: Remove unused JavaScript code from the bundle. Best known as dead code elimination or tree shaking.
- unassertify: Remove all
require('assert')statements from the code. Only applied for production builds. - uglifyify: Minify the bundle.
- yo-yoify: Optimize
chooHTML code so it run significantly faster in the browser. - glslify: Adds a module system to GLSL shaders.
- envify: Allow environment variables to be used in the bundle. Especially useful in combination with minification, which removes unused code paths.
- brfs: Statically inline calls to
fs.readFile(). Useful to ship assets in the browser.
- sheetify: extract all inline CSS from JavaScript, and include it in
bundle.js. - purifyCSS: removes unused CSS from the project.
- cleanCSS: minify the bundle.
- polyfill: preloads polyfill.io, the zero overhead polyfilling service.
- inline-critical-css: extract all crititical CSS for a page into the
<head>of the document. This means that every page will be able to render after the first roundtrip, which makes for super snappy pages. - async load scripts: loads scripts in the background using the
deferattribute. - async load styles: loads styles in the background using the
preloadattribute. - async load styles: preloads fonts in the background using the
preloadattribute. - server render: server renders Choo applications. We're welcome to supporting other frameworks too. PRs welcome!
- manifest: includes a link to
manifest.jsonso the application can be installed on mobile. - viewport: defines the right viewport dimensions to make applications accessible for everyone.
- theme color: sets the theme color defined in
manifest.jsonso the navigator bar on mobile is styled on brand. - title: sets the right title on a page. Either extracts it from the
application (choo only, for now) or uses whatever the title is in
manifest.json. - live reload: during development, we inject a live reload script.
The Bankai CLI doesn't take any flags, other than to manipulate how we log to
the console. Configuring Bankai is done by modifying package.json.
Bankai is built on three technologies: browserify,
sheetify, and documentify. Because these can be
configured inside package.json it means that Bankai itself can be configured
from there too. Also if people ever decide to switch from the command line to
JavaScript, no extra configuration is needed.
{
"name": "my-app",
"browserify": {
"transform": [
"some-browserify-transform"
]
},
"sheetify": {
"transform": [
"some-sheetify-transform"
]
},
"documentify": {
"transform": [
"some-documentify-transform"
]
}
}Bankai can be hooked up directly to an HTTP server, which is useful when working on full stack code.
var bankai = require('bankai/http')
var http = require('http')
var path = require('path')
var compiler = bankai(path.join(__dirname, 'example'))
var server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
compiler(req, res, function () {
res.statusCode = 404
res.end('not found')
})
})
server.listen(8080, function () {
console.log('listening on port 8080')
})Whenever an internal error occurs.
Whenever a change in the internal graph occurs.
Create a new bankai instance. Takes either an entry file location, or an array of files.
Output an HTML bundle for a route. Routes are determined based on the project's
router. Pass '/' to get the default route.
- opts.state: Will be passed the render function for the route, and inlined
in the
<head>of the body aswindow.initialState.
Pass in a filename and output a JS bundle.
Output any other file besides JS, CSS or HTML.
Output a CSS bundle.
Output a manifest.json.
Output a service worker.
Close all file watchers.
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