Build system

[lengstrom]

We need a real build system.

[zckrs]

What do you mean by "build system" ? A task to deploy a new version for example?

[lengstrom]

I'd like to have a system in which we use master as the code development branch, and gh-pages as the deploy branch.

The tricky bit is caching - to prevent caching, we have to rename all of the files that we modify, or else the page will have relatively random behavior for repeat viewers. Thus, I think that we should try to find a way (probably some sort of shell script) that will automatically join all of the .js files in the correct order, name it a version, and then modify index.html's code to account for that.

[zckrs]

You should see around a "task runner" like GulpJS

A sample gulpfile.js : https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/#sample-gulpfilejs

gulp-concat join all file input in one file output.

Many plugins exist : http://gulpjs.com/plugins/

You would like gulp-rev