Bundleer is a live website bundling CLI that uses puppeteer to load your live website and detect all the javascript and css files and bundle them in proper sequence into a compact, single, obfuscated file such as bundle.js or bundle.css.
Typical bundle tools like webkit operate at build time and require you to create special config files, directory structures and other specifics for the bundling tool. Bundleer is a bit of a different animal. It solves a slightly different use case where you want to bundle a running website based on how the browser contructs the page.
This can be useful for things like legacy or 3rd party applications that you want to bundle but for whatever reason do not have access to the source tree or are not able to change the original project source. Additionally, it can serve a use case where you want to author your website or app without using a build time bundler. Then bundleer can create the bundle at runtime, perhaps from a test environment and build your production bundles for you.
This approach certainly is not meant to replace build time bundlers and will probably only have niche uses.
It can however, be used to bundle a 3rd party app or page for use offline, for example.
$ npm install .
$ npm link$ bundleer -h
Usage: bundleer [options] [command]
Options:
-V, --version output the version number
-h, --help output usage information
Commands:
gather <appname> <appurl> Gather CSS and JavaScript for a website URL.
bundle <appname> Bundle, minify and obfuscate CSS and JavaScript for a gathered app.$ bundleer gather <appname> <url>
$ bundleer bundle <appname>
$ ls -l sites/<appname>/bundle.js sites/<appname>/bundle.cssWhen bundleer runs it will create a subdirectory at ./sites/appname that contains all the output. The first step is to run bundleer to gather all the style and javascript files and organize them in proper sequence. The second step is to then bundle those into proper bundle.css and bundle.js files.
At this time, the integration of bundle.css and bundle.js into your desired HTML is up to you. Next release of bundleer will output a modified HTML from the source URL that removes the old CSS and JavaScript and inserts the new bundles.