Welcome!

[Josh David Miller]

Hello, friends!

If you're just getting started with Warlock and thinking about taking it for a spin, introduce yourself! Reply to this thread and say what you're working on or give your initial impressions or let us know what you'd like to see.

Happy coding!

Josh

[Anthony Kerz]

hey josh,

i was just doing one of my periodic scans of the state of things in the 'spa' build space, and i came across warlock.

i am currently using a grunt setup influenced by ngbp, deviating in that it uses sass, jade and a local express server for

serving up a 'mock' version of what would be served up by rails in a deployed environment.

so, i was going to start up a little spare-time exercise to learn type-script, and i figured it was also a good time to take stock

of the state of things in the 'spa' build space, so i have been reading up a bit on gulp, brunch and mimosa.

since i'm still relatively inexperienced in front-end dev, i was leaning towards something that had some pre-defined convention to it,

so after some review i decided something like brunch or mimosa would be a better fit for my purpose.

brunch is more popular than mimosa, but of one of the things i didn't like is that there are so many skeletons to choose from,

that i quickly became overwhelmed attempting to decide which one to use. 

also, perhaps more importantly, i only found one that supported the modularity of ngbp, and i couldn't get live-reload to work

(not sure if that was due to the skeleton or brunch itself tho)

i liked mimosa in that it prompts for preferred stack elements at project creation time (e.g. coffeescript, jade, etc),

and it's live-reload feature worked out-of-the-box, but it's default setup didn't have the ngbp modularity goodness.

so winding up, i really like the promise of warlock because of the cool convention of it all and the modularity goodness.

as i said, i'm kind of an intermediate front-end guy, but i'd be happy to help out if you have any tasks that might not require

expert level experience. maybe i could try my hand at a spell or two to chip away at your short list if you have one?

regards,

tony.

[Josh David Miller]

Hi Anthony!

Thanks for taking the time to say hello. I'm sorry it's taken me a few days to respond.

The last couple months have been fairly busy and so I have not dedicated much time to Warlock, though I hope to remedy that soon.

If you'd like to get involved, we'd love to have you! I don't have a published short list, but there are definitely a few high priority items if you'd like to tackle one. I am familiar with TypeScript only in passing, so if you'd like to take a stab at a typescript spell, that might be a good place to start. Also on the list and in no particular order: protractor spell, myth.io spell, a jade spell, a server task (to throw up a copy of build and/or bin on localhost), and unit tests for Warlock itself and its spells. Then there's anything else you can think of - the list will, of course, be quite long.

Please feel free to email me if you have any questions or if you want some guidance on approach before diving into a task. Also feel free to open issues on any of the repos to start discussions there. If you'd like, we can also get together for a quick Google Hangout sometime - I'd love to say hello.

Hope you had a great weekend - and Happy Monday!

Josh

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