UIZE JavaScript Framework

2009 NEWS 2009-03-19 - NEW GUIDE: JavaScript Build Scripts

The new JavaScript Build Scripts guide discusses all the ins and outs of the JavaScript build scripts that are used for the UIZE Web site project, and that you can use in your own Web site projects to automate certain build tasks.

Among other things, build scripts let you...

automatically scrunch down all JavaScript files inside a Web site project into smaller, obfuscated files using the UIZE JavaScript Framework's Scruncher
automatically find all JavaScript library (.library.js) files inside a Web site project and build a version of the file for production/deployment that combines all the JavaScript modules referenced in the library file
automatically build JavaScript template modules from all JavaScript template module source (.js.jst) files contained inside the JavaScript modules folder
audit all the string literals in all the JavaScript files throughout a Web site project, to aid in internationalizing your JavaScript code
automatically build documentation from comments contained inside your JavaScript modules
automatically build all Wikitext-like Simple Doc (.simple) documents into attractive HTML documentation files
automatically build all Simple Data (.simpledata) data files into HTML files using JavaScript template (.jst) files
and much more...

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