StealJS

The StealJS project is a collection of comamnd and client based JavaScript utilities that make building, packaging, sharing and consuming JavaScript applications easy.

Tools

Dependency Management

The steal script (steal/steal.js) is a script loader and dependency management tool. Features:

• Loads JavaScript, CSS, Less, CoffeeScript, and a variety of client-side templates.
• Only loads a file once.
• Can load relative to the current file.

steal.plugins('jquery/controller','jquery/view/ejs');

JS/CSS Concatenation and Compression

The steal build plugin makes compressing an application into a single compressed JavaScript and CSS file extremely easy. Features:

• Works with any application, even ones not using the steal script.
• Configurable compressors (defaults to Google Closure).
• Compresses Less and CoffeeScript.
• Pre-processes and compresses client-side templates (templates don't have to be parsed).
• Expandable architecture makes it easy to build other resources.

js steal/buildjs mypage.html

Logging

Steal [steal.dev dev] logs messages cross browser. Messages are removed in production builds.

steal.dev.log('something is happening');

Code Generators

Steal generate makes building code generators extremely easy. Features:

• Pre-packaged JMVC style code generators.
• Very easy to write custom generators.

js steal/generate/app cookbook

Package Management

Steal get is a simple JavaScript version of ruby gems. Features:

• Download and install plugins from remote SVN or GIT repositories.
• Installs dependencies.

js steal/getjs http://github.com/jupiterjs/mxui/

Code Cleaner

Steal clean cleans your code and checks it against JSLint.

js steal/clean path/to/page.html