Asset manager for lazy people (think homebrew for assets). Somewhat defunct unless someone wants to maintain it, otherwise I recommend component, a more robust successor.

$ npm install -g asset

 Usage: asset [command] [options]

 Commands:

   install <name ...>   installs the given asset <name ...>
   search  [query]      search available assets with optional [query]
   info  <name ...>     display verbose information for the given asset <name ...>
   none                 install dependencies from ./assets.json

 Options:

   -c, --compress    compress assets
   -o, --out <dir>   output directory defaulting to ./public
   -V, --version     output program version
   -h, --help        display help information

By default asset installs to ./public.

  $ asset raphael jquery

   install : [email protected]
   install : [email protected]
  download : [email protected]
  complete : [email protected] public/jquery.js
  download : [email protected]
  complete : [email protected] public/raphael.js

Asset names accept an optional version and modifiers, taking the form:

<name> ['@' version] [':' 'compress']

To install all assets (that support compression) as compressed, we can use the --compress flag:

  $ asset jquery raphael --compress

However this can be done at the asset-level as well using the :compress modifier:

  $ asset [email protected]:compress raphael

        install : [email protected]
        install : [email protected]
       download : [email protected]
       complete : [email protected] public/jquery.min.js
       download : [email protected]
       complete : [email protected] public/raphael.js

Tweak the output directory with -o, --out <dir>.

  $ asset raphael g.raphael g.pie -o public/javascripts

   install : [email protected]
   install : [email protected]
   install : [email protected]
  download : [email protected]
  complete : [email protected] public/javascripts/raphael.js
  download : [email protected]
  complete : [email protected] public/javascripts/g.raphael.js
  download : [email protected]
  complete : [email protected] public/javascripts/g.pie.js

Alternatively passing a directory name containing "/" will work as well, since asset knows this is not an asset, and becomes equivalent to --out <dir>:

   $ asset raphael jquery public/javascripts

Asset currently supports extremely basic dependency mapping, for example below is the output of installing g.pie, which depends on g.raphael, which in turn depends on raphael itself.

$ asset g.pie

      install : [email protected]
   dependency : [email protected]
      install : [email protected]
   dependency : [email protected]
      install : [email protected]
     download : [email protected]
     complete : [email protected] public/raphael.js
     download : [email protected]
     complete : [email protected] public/g.raphael.js
     download : [email protected]
     complete : [email protected] public/g.pie.js

Inspect verbose asset information:

$ asset info jquery g.raphael

         name : jquery
  description : jquery core framework
          url : http://code.jquery.com/jquery-{version}.min.js
      version : 1.5.2
     filename : jquery.js

         name : g.raphael
  description : charting for raphael
          url : https://github.com/DmitryBaranovskiy/g.raphael/raw/v{version}/g.raphael-min.js
      version : 0.4.1
     filename : g.raphael.js
 dependencies : raphael

To install a specific version, we can use the @ character:

  $ asset [email protected]

We can search the repository with an optional query, listing available assets and their default versions:

 $ asset raphael

  install : [email protected]
 download : [email protected]
 complete : [email protected] public/raphael.js

By adding ./assets.json you can store application dependencies, and install them quickly and easily with a single command asset. For example this file may contain one or more deps:

 {
     "g.raphael": "0.4.1"
   , "jquery": "1.5.2"
   , "modernizr": "1.7"
 }

Installed with the command:

 $ asset
 
    install : [email protected]
 dependency : [email protected]
    install : [email protected]
    install : [email protected]
    install : [email protected]
   download : [email protected]
   complete : [email protected] public/jquery.js
   download : [email protected]
   complete : [email protected] public/raphael.js
   download : [email protected]
   complete : [email protected] public/g.raphael.js
   download : [email protected]
   complete : [email protected] public/modernizr.js

By default options must be passed via the CLI, however asset will also check the ./.asset and ~/.asset JSON configuration files, so for example a project may set { "out": "public/javascripts" } if we are mainly working with javascript, however the CLI options will always take precedence.

By default the repo bundled with asset is used, however the ~/.assets configuration file is checked first. Perhaps down the road if/when asset becomes more flexible a repo will be hosted, for now simply fork the project edit ./assets.json, and send a pull request.

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 TJ Holowaychuk <[email protected]>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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