Grinder for Dart

A task based, dependency aware build system.

Intro

Grinder is a library and tool to drive a command-line build.

Build files are entirely specified in Dart code. This allows you to write and debug your build files with the same tools you use for the rest of your project source.

Getting Started

The build file for your application should reside at tool/grind.dart. A typical Grinder build file may look something like this:

void main([List<String> args]) {
  task('init', init);
  task('compile', compile, ['init']);
  task('deploy', deploy, ['compile']);
  task('docs', deploy, ['init']);
  task('all', null, ['deploy', 'docs']);

  startGrinder(args);
}

init(GrinderContext context) {
  context.log("I set things up");
}

...

Tasks to run are specified on the command line. If a task has dependencies, those dependent tasks are run before the specified task.

Installing

To install, run:

pub global activate grinder

Command-line usage

usage: dart grind.dart <options> target1 target2 ...

valid options:
-h, --help    show targets but don't build
-d, --deps    display the dependencies of targets

or:

pub global run grind <args>

will run the tool/grind.dart script with the supplied arguments.

API documentation

Documentation is available here.

Disclaimer

This is not an official Google product.