Asset pipeline for Ember.js, Express.js and Node.js?

Question

I\'m building an Ember.js application using Express.js as the backend. Right now, I load all my *.js files individually and store my Handlebars templates in my HTML file. I like

Answer 1

I started working on a setup for using an Assetfile with an ember project, this is based on the peepcode tutorial and added the build tools, see: https://github.com/pixelhandler/peepcode-ordr

As for compiling coffee script this is an example doing that... https://github.com/OC-Emberjs/peepcode-ordr-test/blob/assetmanager/Assetfile

# Assetfile
require 'rake-pipeline-web-filters'

output "public"

input "js/tests" do

  match "**/*.coffee" do
    coffee_script
    concat "tests.js"
  end

end

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And precompiling the Handlebars templates like so...

# Assetfile

# See Getting Started readme
# - https://github.com/livingsocial/rake-pipeline/blob/master/GETTING_STARTED.md

# See Assetfile examples:
# - https://gist.github.com/dudleyf/1557811
# - https://github.com/ryanto/ryanto.github.com/blob/master/Assetfile

require "rake-pipeline-web-filters"

output "public"

class HandlebarsFilter < Rake::Pipeline::Filter
  def generate_output(inputs, output)
    inputs.each do |input|
      # for sub-templates we can't really use '/' in a filename so using '__' instead, then replacing
      name = File.basename(input.fullpath, ".handlebars").sub(/__/, "/") 
      output.write "return Ember.TEMPLATES['#{name}'] = Ember.Handlebars.compile(#{input.read.to_json})"
    end
  end
end

input "app/templates" do
  match "**/*.handlebars" do
    filter HandlebarsFilter
    name = proc { |input| File.basename(input.fullpath, ".handlebars").sub(/__/, "/") + "_template" }
    minispade :module_id_generator => name
    concat "js/templates.js"
  end
end

# vim:ft=ruby

Here is an example file I used to start from: https://github.com/hjr3/dasfd/blob/master/Assetfile