Add a build script

[glaubinix]

We were talking already a couple of times about a build script
* merge js, css
* maybe build custom html with data from the config file and replace stuff like title
* maybe even merge everything into one single html file
* have different tasks for the different formats

A start would be actually figure out what sort of build script we want:
* grunt
* custom js file
* other option?

[BattleRattle]

Grunt looks pretty promising to me. There are so many plugins available. I think we should use that.

[BattleRattle]

OK, 3 weeks without any objection or suggestions for alternatives. So I guess, Grunt it is.

[BattleRattle]

Whoops, I accidently closed this issue. Of course, integrating Grunt is still a TODO :D

[glaubinix]

I would start with the js part. Ok if I take uglify.js to minify or do you have any other preferences? Any ideas for css?

[BattleRattle]

What about UglifyCss? :)

[glaubinix]

I think the easiest would be to add the grunt watch task and every time you change something the merged css and js files are rebuild and in the index.hml you only add the final files but not the dev files. What do you think?

[glaubinix]

Ok, finally decided to have a look at it, idea so far:

• move plugins to own repositories (js, css) this will allow dependency handling
• this repo will contain build script + base version
• build script has 2 steps: init + build
• init setups a new project (if you have a look at the jsunconf repo, you see modify our repo and keep everything under version control) kind of similar to npm init -> output config.json
• build create app cache file , 1 html, 1 css, 1 js
• maybe additional "dev" serve mode if you want to create own css styles?

Any thoughts @BattleRattle. Maybe @robertkowalski do you have anything, you missed during the jsunconf setup?

[robertkowalski]

Nothing special, it was quite easy to setup