connect-coffee-script
It provide a simple Connect middleware to serve CoffeeScript files. It is modeled after the Stylus middleware.
This project was created after the drop of native support for CoffeeScript in latest Express. More specifically, Express droped the compiler middleware in its versions 2 and 3 (the current versions at the time of this writing).
Read the annoucement article for more information.
Installation
Using npm:
npm install connect-coffee-script
Usage
Function returning a Connect middleware with the given options
.
Options:
force
Always re-compilesrc
Source directory used to find .coffee filesdest
Destination directory used to output .js files when undefined defaults tosrc
compile
Custom compile function, accepting the arguments(str, options)
bare
Compile without a top-level function wrapperbaseDir
Base directory for path resolutionprefix
Path which should be stripped fromsrc
Basic example
Here we will setup the middleware with only the required src
option.
var coffeescript = require('connect-coffee-script');
var connect = require('connect');
var app = connect();
app.use(coffeescript({
src: __dirname,
bare: true
}));
app.use(connect.static(__dirname + '/public'));
app.listen(3000)
Advanced example
Here we set up the custom compile function so that we may
set the bare
option, or define additional functions.
By default the compile function simply renders the JavaScript.
function compile(str, options) {
options.bare = true;
return coffeeScript.compile(str, options);
}
Pass the middleware to Connect, grabbing "*.coffee" files from this directory
and saving .js files to ./public. Also supplying our custom compile
function.
Following that we have a static()
layer setup to serve the .js
files generated by CoffeeScript.
var coffeeScript = require('coffee-script');
var connectCoffeescript = require('connect-coffee-script');
var connect = require('connect');
var app = connect();
app.use(connectCoffeescript({
src: __dirname,
dest: __dirname + '/public',
compile: compile
}));
app.use(connect.static(__dirname + '/public'));
Contributors
- David Worms : https://github.com/wdavidw
- Dave Wasmer : https://github.com/davewasmer