prepack/README.md
James Nolan 3c9c6ac2a5 Make master/docs a single source of truth for gh-pages
Summary:
Release note: none

To address issue #956 .

The idea is to have all documentation (aka "the website") in a single `docs/` directory on the `master` branch like [Jest](https://github.com/facebook/jest/tree/master/docs) and [Relay](https://github.com/facebook/relay/tree/master/docs) do. This directory then serves as a single source of truth to publish the `gh-pages` branch.

This PR:
- Moves the current content of the `gh-pages` branch to a `docs/` directory in `master`
- Provides a bash script for maintainers to easily publish the `gh-pages` branch from the `docs/` directory. The script also builds `prepack.min.js` from master to make sure gh-pages always has the latest version of prepack.

Additionally, I noticed the `gh-pages` branch had two `prepack.min.js` files (one in `./` and one in `./js/`). I removed the first one because it is apparently not used but it may break other websites if they references that file.

0. Fork the repo to avoid modifying the real website

1. Change the site
`> git checkout master`
`> echo ".nav { background-color: chartreuse; }" >> docs/css/style.css`
`> git add docs/css/style.css`
`> commit -m "The navigation bar looks better in green"`
`> git push`

2. Run the publication script:
`> ./scripts/publish-gh-pages.sh`

3. Verify that the gh-pages has been updated:
`> git checkout gh-pages`
`> git pull`
`> git diff HEAD~ # should show the line you added`
Closes https://github.com/facebook/prepack/pull/1223

Differential Revision: D6547395

Pulled By: j-nolan

fbshipit-source-id: 6e6d3aec97c0bcc2555c421d6f4a889bcd8df208
2017-12-12 12:10:05 -08:00

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Prepack is a partial evaluator for JavaScript. Prepack rewrites a JavaScript bundle, resulting in JavaScript code that executes more efficiently. For initialization-heavy code, Prepack works best in an environment where JavaScript parsing is effectively cached.

See the official prepack.io website for an introduction and an interactive REPL playground.

How to use Prepack

Install the CLI via npm,

$ npm install -g prepack

Or if you prefer yarn, make sure you get yarn first,

$ npm install -g yarn

and then install the Prepack CLI via yarn:

$ yarn global add prepack

You may need to prepend (pun intended!) the command with sudo in some cases.

Let the party begin

To compile a file and print the output to the console:

$ prepack script.js

If you want to compile a file and output to another file:

$ prepack script.js --out script-processed.js

Detailed instructions and the API can be found at Prepack CLI: Getting Started

Plugins to other tools

The following are a few plugins to other tools. They have been created and are maintained separately from Prepack itself. If you run into any issues with those plugins, please ask the plugin maintainers for support.

Status

How to get the code

  1. Clone repository and make it your current directory.
  2. git submodule init
  3. git submodule update --init
  4. Get yarn and node, then do yarn

Note: For development work you really need yarn, as many scripts require it.

How to build, lint, type check

  1. Get the code
  2. yarn build
    You can later run yarn watch in the background to just compile changed files on the fly.
  3. yarn lint
  4. yarn flow

How to run tests

  1. Get the code
  2. Make sure the code is built, either by running yarn build or yarn watch
  3. yarn test

You can run individual test suites as follows:

  • yarn test-serializer
    This tests the interpreter and serializer. All tests should pass.
  • yarn test-test262
    This tests conformance against the test262 suite. Not all will pass, increasing conformance is work in progress.

How to run the interpreter

  1. Get the code
  2. Make sure the code is built, either by running yarn build or yarn watch
  3. yarn repl
    This starts an interactive interpreter session.

How to run Prepack

  1. Get the code

  2. Make sure the code is built, either by running yarn build or yarn watch.

  3. Have a JavaScript file handy that you want to prepack, for example:
    echo "function hello() { return 'hello'; } function world() { return 'world'; } s = hello() + ' ' + world();" >/tmp/sample.js

  4. cat /tmp/sample.js | yarn prepack
    Try --help for more options.

How to validate changes

Instead of building, linting, type checking, testing separately, the following does everything together:
yarn validate

How to edit the website

The content for prepack.io resides in the website directory of this repository. To make changes, submit a pull request, just like for any code changes.

In order to run the website locally at localhost:8000:

  1. Build prepack into the website: yarn build-bundle && mv prepack.min.js website/js
  2. Run python -m SimpleHTTPServer (Python 2) or python -m http.server (Python 3) from the website/ directory

How to contribute

For more information about contributing pull requests and issues, see our Contribution Guidelines.

License

Prepack is BSD-licensed. We also provide an additional patent grant.