Ideal JS builder

ideal-builder.md

Ideal js components builder

Goal

Come up with a tool solving ideally building task and allowing user to focus on component logic not shims or polyfills.

Tasks

• Build component efficiently for different target environments: jquery, web-component, node, browser, UMD etc. Take into account best-practices.
• Ensure that the result contains no redundant code: clones, analogous modules, unnecessary exports with subbranches, polyfills, env shims, null-like modules, unnecessary wrappers.
• Provide advanced-compilable exports.
• Polyfill & shim the environment.
• Assess code quality: antipatterns, clones, rule-3. Give recommendations.

Features

• Harness environmental functions, if possible, similar to dependencies (like $.css instead of mucss).
• Remove empty or avoidable requirements (like debug).
• Autopolyfill: provide absent environmental variables (like classList on elements).
• Normalize environment: provide shims (node-builtins for browsers, document, window etc for Node).
• Resolve analogous modules (mucss/css + dom/css = dom/css).
• Remove unused exports from inner modules, like (mucss.offsets).
• Wrap result for target environment: UMD, jQuery-plugin, web-component, ...
• Detect code clones, automatically collapses them.
• Assess quality: clones, antipatterns, complexity, nasa-rules.
• Autotest that merge result is ok: prepare tests for target environments.