2016-07-20 1:23 GMT+02:00 Ben Finney <[email protected]>: > On 19-Jul-2016, Don Armstrong wrote: > > And now that enough people have read [the bug discussing whether > > compiled JavaScript is source], we probably could have > > re-implemented grunt by now and solved the libjs-handlebars problem. > > Perhaps not a complete re-implementation of Grunt. But there is a > clear desire for a JavaScript compiler: a program that takes several > input JavaScript files, and compiles them to a single generated file. > > Can we come up with a specification of that job, sufficient to package > in Debian for use where upstream packages use Grunt to “browserify” > libraries? > > Ideally it should not be based on Grunt source, so that it's clear to > implement just this tool without entanglement of existing programs not > yet in Debian. >
FYI a similar approach has been implemented in browserify-lite. The case at hand (handlebars) requires more features like the ones provided by babel. Jérémy.
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