Kintsugi

A very opinionated and batteries-included application development toolkit comprising existing Javascript frameworks. Kintsugi combines the best of many tools to create a cohesive system to manage large and complex applications that are broken down into many packages. In other words, Kintsugi is to Gulp / Grunt as Google's Repo is to git.

Phases of a Project

Kintsugi manages the development process into build lifecycle phases. These are:

Initialization

* Scaffold project with sample packages
* Setup environment
* Install dependencies

k init
k init -g angular2
k init -g react-redux
k init -g react-mobservable

Development

* Create project symlinks for subset of project and dependencies
* Watch file changes and transpile source code for subset of project and dependencies
* Fire up Webpack Dev Server to create in-memory bundle(s)

k dev
k dev foo
k dev foo -d 2

Install New Dependent Package

To install dependent package for a specific pacakge, do this inside the package's directory. Every time a NEWER package is installed, all the project's packages dependency versions will be updated.

cd package-a
k install foo bar baz@0.5.0

Scaffold

* Scaffold new package in the project

k new foo

Package

* Build subset of packages or entire project
* Bundle with Webpack

k build

Test

* Watch test file changes and transpile test code
* Run tests against the transpilation

k test

Publish

* Publish artifacts to npm repository (changed)
* Publish artifacts to file share as tarball

k publish