dmake

Simple, flexible build system in Dart. Supports incremental builds, file watching, and snapshotting for faster startup.

Usage

dmake is a DSL that creates a simple graph of inputs and outputs.

Try compiling a Dart app! In tool/all.dart:

import 'package:dmake/dmake.dart';
import 'package:dmake/dart.dart';

main(List<String> args) {
  make(args, () {
    if (isRelease) {
      // Build to JS in release mode.
      dart2js('web/main.dart');
    } else {
      // Run all web/ files through dartdevc.
      all(glob('web/*.dart', recursive: false), dartdevc);
    }
  });
}

Then, run dart tool/all.dart. All of your .dart files in web/ will be built to JavaScript via the Dart dev compiler.

Release mode

It's pretty common to have different build rules in debug and release mode. To switch over to dart2js, run dart tool/all.dart --release.

Snapshotting Builds

Build systems are called very often, and therefore should start up quickly. Using the dmake executable, you can easily snapshot your build script.

To create a snapshot of tool/all.dart, just run pub run dmake.

If you had another file, say, tool/foo.dart, the command would become pub run dmake -t foo.

The single caveat is that to distinguish between arguments passed to the dmake toplevel and to your actual script, you need to separate them with a --.

For example, to run in release mode:

pub run dmake -- --release

Run pub run dmake --help for help.

You can also pub global activate dmake. In this case, you can simply run dmake, dmake -t foo, etc.

Infrastructure

dmake includes utilities for quickly building files in different languages:

• package:dmake/dart.dart
• package:dmake/sass.dart