A simple extensible NPM build bot.

Given a small script for building a specific module:

var tmp = require('tmp');
var assert = require('assert');

var ModuleSmith = require('module-smith');
var buildbot = ModuleSmith.createModuleSmith();

//
// Grab a temporary directory to build in
//
tmp.dir(function (err, tmpdir) {
   assert.ifError(err);
   //
   // Start our build
   //
   buildbot.build({
      repository: {
         type: 'git',
         url: '[email protected]:bmeck/bcrypt-example.git'
      },
      directories: {
         rootdir: tmpdir
      }
   }, function (err, stream) {
      assert.ifError(err);
      //
      // Pipe out the data to stdio
      //
      stream.pipe(process.stdout);
   });
});

We can dump it to a file via:

node build.js > built.tgz

List of the versions supported with absolute version numbers like ie. '0.8.12'

The defaults for a build run using this ModuleSmith.

Runs a build

A build description enumerates a number of values

Optional environmental variables to spawn npm with.

Some interesting fields are:

• npm_config_registry - registry to download from
• npm_config_nodedir - location of node-gyp's include directory

Optional user to spawn npm as.

Optional group to spawn npm under.

Optional package.json overrides. Can be extended easily from the repository during npm.configure.

Some interesting fields are:

• engines.node - version to spawn as

A checkout npm module repository to download wbefore building.

The place to use for creating the build.

Extensibility for complex actions can be done via Understudy based actions, only before actions are supported.

Notifications of actions that have been completed are available via the EventEmitter APIs.