n-makefile

...has been replaced by n-gage.

it has all the same features, is kept up to date, and is easier to install and keep updated in your app. use that instead.

Installing

Download the latest release of n-makefile into the root directory of your project:-

LATEST=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/Financial-Times/n-makefile/tags | grep name | head -n 1 | sed 's/[," ]//g' | cut -d ':' -f 2)
curl -sL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Financial-Times/n-makefile/${LATEST}/Makefile" > n.Makefile
perl -p -i -e "s/^VERSION = master/VERSION = ${LATEST}/" n.Makefile

Add this to the top of your Makefile:-

include n.Makefile

If your app has a Procfile then you will need to add haikro as a dev dependency to your project:-

npm install -D haikro

Now commit and go:-

git add Makefile n.Makefile
git commit -m "Add build tools at version $LATEST"
git push

Introduction

Problems trying to solve over NBT (and OBT)

• Enormous dependency tree. The npm install part of builds are often the slowest thing. It's crazy that when you're building apps that don't and can never have front ends (APIs, Lambda functions) you still need to pull in webpack, Sass, etc just to get the toolchain.
• Everyone's code editors would be much happier if the dotfiles were in the place those expect them to be. n-makefile puts (or expects) .editorconfig, .scss-lint.yml, etc in the root directory of projects.
• make install was dependent on make install having run before. (obt install required obt to be there).
• Try to eliminate the need to add the custom :node_modules/.bin to everyone's $PATH.

What this is not

• A complete rewrite in bash/Makefile. The ‘heavy lifting’ should still be done by npm modules. There'll probably be a bit too much implemented in bash/Makefile initially whilst we figure out exactly where to draw the line in what logic should be controlled by bash/Makefile and what should be handled by the npm modules.

Philosophy

• Always default to doing nothing.
• Each feature should work in isolation.
• Rely on signals and intelligently infer what to do.
• The developer can always override anything.
• Unused features must not slow things down.

Commands

clean

Removes all the uncommited files and folders from the local clone.

install

make install may pull in two types of thing. Packages and dot files.

Packages

• Only try to install npm modules if there's a package.json file.
• Only try to install bower components if there's a bower.json file.
• Only try to install the scss-lint Ruby Gem if it's not already installed and if there are actually *.scss files in the project.

(We hope to get rid of scss-lint as soon as the Node port gains feature parity, and then it'll come through the npm module installation step)

Dot files

E.g. .editorconfig, .scss-lint.yml, or .eslintrc.js

• By default, no nothing.
• If a dot file is commited to the repository don't overwrite it — i.e. also do nothing (default behaviour in Makefile).
• If a dot file is not commited but is listed in the .gitignore file, download it during make install.

Note: The .env dot file contains private keys. Handle with care.

Rather than risk generating .env files in different environments, makefile does not invoke the .env target automatically. If you're in a development environment, and you want to import the project's environment variables, You will need to run 'make .env' youself.

assets and assets-production

For repositories that have client side assets to build (i.e. if webpack.config.js exists):-

• Runs webpack with development settings (if assets) or with production settings (if assets-production).

build and build-production

For repositories that have client side assets to build runs assets/assets-production

For Heroku apps (i.e. if a Procfile exists):-

• Creates public/__about.json with some metadata about the current build.
• Runs haikro build to prepare a .tar.gz file for uploading to Heroku (build-production only).

verify

• Only run the verify step if the relevant dot file exists. E.g. only run eslint if .eslintrc.js exists.
• Run the linting tool against an appropriate subset of the files committed to the project.

update-tools

Updates your project's copy of n-makefile to the latest version.

help

Prints usage information for the rules defined in the Makefile.

Add your own descriptions by commenting your rules like so:

rule-%: ## rule-name: Rule description.

Contribution

Please read the contribution guide.