Development component which do AMD-like thing

[smagch]

I just watch the screen cast. I am really excited about the project.

I have a question.

Should I build each time when I'm developing a component?

I'll be fine with watching a file. But I think it's nice to debug separated code rather than concatenated one since we have really great dev tool.

It sounds silly, but I suppose it'll be handy to have AMD-like script insertion for development.

[vision media [ Tj Holowaychuk ]]

for right now it needs to be built each time, I do this:

$ watch make &

and then work on things, when I'm done I just do:

$ fg

to bring watch back into the foreground

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "component" group.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to componentjs...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
 
 

[smagch]

Thanks for the tip!

It seems `component-ls` is just reading `./components` directory.

It might be nice to have a option which output JavaScripts in dependencies resolved order.

```

$ component ls

./components/component-emitter/index.js

./components/component-jquery/index.js

./components/component-pager/template.js

./components/component-pager/index.js

```

And then comment out `build.js`

```

<script src='path-to-component-require.js'></script>

<script src='./components/component-emitter/index.js'></script>

<script src='./components/component-jquery/index.js'></script>

<script src='./components/component-pager/template.js'></script>

<script src='./components/component-pager/index.js'></script>

<script src='./index.js'></script>

<!-- <script src='/build/build.js></script> -->

```

This is not really sophisticated approach though. I just wonder how component development is going to be.

Handy development environment will be necessary in order to grow community though it won't be priority at the moment.

[vision media [ Tj Holowaychuk ]]

it would be pretty difficult to do that in some cases since several things could depend on emitter etc. Personally I dont think it's worth it, it would take more work to set that up for your dev env than it would be to just do:

$ watch make &

once you background that you dont even notice there's a build step at all

[smagch]

Ah, I got it. I just tried and it doesn't work and I understand why.

My point was that it would be a bit painful to debug concatenated build.js.

Thanks anyway.

[vision media [ Tj Holowaychuk ]]

ah I see. I dont think it changes much personally, once you click the link to see where the error is in code it's obvious where things went wrong, but that's still a valid argument, it doesn't help debugging that's for sure. I'll add source map support soonish too

[smagch]

SOURCE MAP!

I've never thought about such cutting-edge solution. I've been taking it for just CoffeeScript people. Source map will be a sweet solution.

[Sankar Gorthi]

+1

Any word on what the status of this is?

[Sankar Gorthi]

Found https://github.com/component/component/issues/85

This seems to be it.