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Build tools written in JavaScript

List of JavaScript Build Tools

Yet another framework syndrome

Name Date URL Stars
Jake April 2010 https://github.com/mde/jake 1000
Brunch January 2011 http://brunch.io/ 3882
smoosh March 2011 https://github.com/fat/smoosh 329
anvil.js February 2012 https://github.com/anviljs/anvil.js 161
ShellJS includes one March 2012 http://documentup.com/arturadib/shelljs#make-tool 2171
Grunt March 2012 http://gruntjs.com/ 9039
Gear.js May 2012? http://gearjs.org/ 78
assetgraph-builder September 2012 https://github.com/assetgraph/assetgraph-builder 365
buildr October 2012 https://github.com/balupton/buildr 217
mimosa December 2012 http://mimosa.io/ 445
modjs December 2012 http://madscript.com/modjs/ 450
automaton January 2013 http://indigounited.com/automaton 210
harp February 2013 http://harpjs.com/ 2615
james.js March 2013 https://github.com/leonidas/james.js 32
Bud April 2013 https://github.com/azer/bud 175
Gulp September 2013 http://gulpjs.com/ 11,264
simplebuild December 2013 https://github.com/jamesshore/simplebuild 8
Brocolli February 2014 https://github.com/joliss/broccoli 1842
Fez February 2014 http://fez.github.io/ 271
cha February 2014 https://github.com/chajs/cha 183
builder2.js April 2014 https://github.com/componentjs/builder2.js 43

And these are just the ones written in JavaScript.

Projects which haven't had commits in the last couple months are strikethrough.

@chris-morgan
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Broccoli has been misspelled as Brocolli in this list. Also the link should now be https://github.com/broccolijs/broccoli.

@ashleydavis
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Here's my contribution: task-mule

https://www.npmjs.com/package/task-mule

@thestackchief
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