task is simple to full-featured async task runner
- es6 task files
- typescript task files
- .env parsing
- parallelized dependencies can speed some tasks
- daemon restarts
- watch mode
# to run latest
git clone https://github.com/mgutz/task
cd task
npm link
# to run next, which may be outdated
npm install -g @mgutz/task@next
# stable is not yet availableEdit Taskfile.js or Taskfile.ts. Does not need to be inside a node project
const sleep = ms => new Promise(resolve => resolve(), ms)
export const name = async ({prompt}) => {
const answers = await prompt([{name: 'name', message: 'Name'}])
console.log(`Hello, ${answers.name}!`)
}
export const clean = async () => {
await sleep(1)
console.log('clean')
}
export const build = {
deps: [clean],
run: () => {
console.log('build')
},
}
export const arg = ({argv}) => {
console.log(argv._[0])
}
export const docs = () => {
console.log('building docs')
}
// use shell spawn (shawn) to gracefully restart daemons
export const server = {
run: async ({shawn}) => {
return shawn(`node src/main.js`)
},
watch: ['src/**.js'],
}
export default {
// runs `name` then ['clean', 'build'] and `docs` in parallel
deps: [name, {p: [build, docs]}],
}To run default: task
To invoke arg with an argument: task arg foo
To run server in watch mode: task server -w
To see which tasks will run: task build --dry-run
task reads .taskrc configuration file from same directory as the Taskfile.
.taskrc must be a node compatible Javascript file.
module.exports = {
debug: true,
file: 'Taskfile.mjs',
}Be aware that some short flags are aliases for long flags on the command
line. Use long flag names in .taskrc. For example, use file instead
of f.
task --init creates an example .taskrc
To run tests
task testMIT Licensed