Cake file that packages files from npm or locally. Looks in local node_modules for npm packages.

assets.coffee

exports.js_local = 'frontend/js/libs'

exports.js =
  underscore:             'npm'
  jquery:                 'local'
  'jquery.cookie':        'local'
  'jquery.easing':        'local'
  'jquery.extend':        'local'
  'jquery.reveal':        'local'
  'jquery.simplemodal':   'local'
  backbone:               'npm'
  store:                  'npm'
  'date':                 'local'
  'hashgrid':             'local'
  'backbone.history.html5': 'local'
  'minpubsub': 'local'

exports.js_target = 'frontend/js/libs.js'

Cakefile.coffee

fs = require 'fs'
assets = require './frontend/js/assets'
exec = require('child_process').exec

task 'dev:js_lib', 'Rebuild the js libs', (options) ->
  js = ''
  js_local = assets.js_local
  for key of assets.js
    if assets.js[key] is "npm"
      try
        js += fs.readFileSync("node_modules/#{key}/#{key}.js", 'utf-8')
      catch e
        try
          # Try the lib dir
          js += fs.readFileSync("node_modules/#{key}/lib/#{key}.js", 'utf-8')
        catch e1
          log "unable to find package #{key} in node_modules"
    else
      js += fs.readFileSync("#{js_local}/#{key}.js", 'utf-8')
  fs.writeFileSync assets.js_target, js
  console.log("Successfuly created #{assets.js_target}")

task 'prod:js_lib', 'Build and uglify', ->
  invoke 'dev:js_lib'
  exec "uglifyjs --overwrite #{assets.js_target}", (err, stdout, stderr) ->
      if err then console.log stderr.trim() else console.log 'done'

have you thought about integrating uglify here too?

Oh ok boss :). Added above.

Btw, I dropped ender.js in favor of this. This is all I really need for the most part except for a little file watching when my app files change (just not packaging them for now).