cj / jitter

A simple CoffeeScript compilation utility

Jitter

A simple compilation utility for CoffeeScript.

Jitter watches for new files and changes to files in the CoffeeScript source directory you specify, and compiles new JavaScript files as needed. No flags, no worries, just the sweet CoffeeScript compilation you need when you need it.

Installing

First you'll need to install CoffeeScript, if you don't have it already (if you have it, coffee -v will display the version number). If you have Homebrew, you can just run

brew install coffee-script

Otherwise, instructions can be found at http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script.

Once you have CoffeeScript on your path, just download Jitter and run

./install

You've now got Jitter!

To use:

Let's say you have a bunch of *.coffee files in the coffee directory, and want to compile them to the js directory. Then run:

jitter coffee js

Jitter runs in the background until you terminate it (Ctrl+C), watching for new changes.

Or let's say you want to take *.coffee files from the src directory and compile them to the current directory. Then run

jitter src .

For more info, see http://iterative.ly/2010/05/03/introducing-jitter/

Growl notifications

Jitter will display a growl notification whenever compilation fails, provided that you have growlnotify installed and on your PATH. This allows you to run Jitter silently in the background, not worrying about it until you get a syntax error.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 Trevor Burnham http://iterative.ly

Based on command.coffee by Jeremy Ashkenas http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/documentation/docs/command.html

Growl notification code contributed by Andrey Tarantsov http://www.tarantsov.com/

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.