Tasker

Tasker is inspired by rake, jake, make, and-many-other-ake's

Goals

• Simple to use
• Doesn't polute the global namespace
• Node like (ex: supports async tasks)
• Use standard option flags
• Use like any other node module, not a binary

Example Tasker Script

var tasker = require('tasker');

// Namespaces:
tasker.namespace('example', function () {
  
  tasker
    .desc('Test Description')
    .params(
      {default: null, short: 'n', long: 'name', desc: 'Your name.'},
      {default: null, short: 'a', long: 'age', desc: 'Your age.'}
    )
    .define('foo', ['bar'], function () {
      var opts = tasker.opts;

      console.log('Ran Foo', opts.name, opts.age)
    });

});


// By including the next param you are indicating that this is an async
// task. You must call next() at some point or processing will cease.
tasker
  .desc('Something else')
  .define('bar', ['qux'], function (next) {
    console.log('Ran Bar');
    next();
  });

tasker
  .desc('Something else')
  .define('qux', function () {
    console.log('Ran Qux');
  });


// This is required to start tasker after everything is defined
tasker.run();


// Usage: node ./examples/demo.js example:foo -n Ray -a 24
// Output:
//   Ran Qux
//   Ran Bar
//   Ran Foo Ray 24

// Usage: node ./examples/demo.js bar
// Output:
//   Ran Qux
//   Ran Bar

// Usage: node ./examples/demo.js qux
// Output:
//   Ran Qux

Tasker exports 6 functions. Other than that everything is pure, normal Node.js. For example, you can use require to pull in tasks from other files. Just make sure that you call tasker.run() last.