node-amdify

This is yet another library that converts nodejs code to browser supported code. Actually, node-amdify doesn't know how to extract pacakge dependencies, which makes it less usefull than https://github.com/substack/node-browserify. However, it serves to one more general purpose. It can convert CommonJS module definition style to AMD https://github.com/amdjs/amdjs-api/wiki/AMD.

I wrote it despite the fact that there is already https://github.com/jrburke/r.js, because r.js is very slow, not flexible and doesn't allow you to inject any code, that somehow modifies converter behaviour.

This library has only two methods:

build

amdify = require('node-amdify');
 
var pipe = amdify.build('dir', 'result', 'output')

Here dir is a directory from where all .js and .coffee file will be converted to AMD, result is a file where convert result will be stored and output is a directory where just compiled from coffee but not converted files will be stored. Result value is Pipe class wich will be define later.

watch

amdify = require('node-amdify');
 
var pipe = amdify.build('dir', 'result', 'output')

The same as build but it also watches dir for changes and recompiles changed files. Since all compiled files are stored in memory and watch compiles only changed files, after initial compilation, every change compiles very fast.

Pipe

constructor(dir, pack, output)

Just constructor, but since you have no access to a class, it doesn't matter.

launchPipe(userPipe, cb)

node-amdify has 3 steps:

1. Compile .coffee to .js if it's .coffee
2. userPipe
3. Extracting all CommonJS dependencies, normalizing paths and adding define statements
4. Building single pack

userPipe allows you to interact with this scheme and somehow modify code after it's compiled, but before convert started, cb is just a callback that fires every time when pack is built.

through = require('through')
 
mypipe = through (data) ->
  if data.code
    code = 'var I18n = require("common/i18n");\n' + data.code
    @queue file: data.file, code: code
  else
    @queue data
 
module.exports =
 
  watch: ->
    converter = amdify.watch './src', './pack.js', './lib'
    converter.launchPipe mypipe, -> console.log 'compiled'