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linemanjs / lineman

Lineman helps you build fat-client JavaScript apps. It produces happiness by building assets, mocking servers, running specs on every file change
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Plugin API should be expanded to define & override CLI actions #208

Closed searls closed 9 years ago

searls commented 10 years ago

Right now the lineman CLI is basically all governed by a single file with no real clear rhyme or reason. We should factor it out into part of the plugin discovery system and allow third-party plugins to define (and extend) existing lineman CLI actions.

Would require some internal design gymnastics, because it'd require us to separate plugin discovery from the current configuration-munging (not a bad idea anyway), but would be great for plugins who need to add new behavior (like lineman deploy or lineman runTestsInABrowser)

davemo commented 9 years ago

Thoughts on if this is still relevant @searls?

searls commented 9 years ago

Eh, I think this is really just sugar 99% of the time for what would as well be lineman grunt new-thing. I don't think it's that necessary