Boop!

A dumb, simple build system that happens to not be make.

Boop doesn't try to be clever. Boop is dumb and simple, with a syntax that tries to be straightforward and simple too.

A basic tasks.boop file:

To execute the build task with the debug flag set:

> boop build debug

Or to be fancy and keep boop running, watching your files, and automatically re-run the debug task whenever its files change...

> boop build debug --watch

Features

• Easily target files via search globs. You can iterate over them in tasks, or specify separate tasks within each file iteration, to separate dependencies for each
• Tasks specified as providing files and depending on others only execute when those files are out of date
• Boop is fast, and all tasks are multithreaded based on your cpu core count
• Can be ran in watch mode, automatically watching any dependent files and re-executing the specified task when it becomes out of date
• Watch mode also watches the task file itself, so you can make changes to it while active, and it will auto-reload
• Tasks are executed in a simple predictable order, top to bottom, in parallel, with parent tasks waiting for all their dependencies to complete before proceeeding
• The syntax tries to be simple and clean, so you can think about tasks and files and getting things done, not abstract concepts like dependency chains and job pools
• No hidden gotchas or non-obvious behaviours
• VSCode extension for syntax highlighting

Commandline Parameters

Usage: boop [OPTION]... [TASK] [FLAGS]...
Run the TASK in the tasks.boop script, passing it specified FLAGS

  -d, --dry-run          do not actually execute commands (useful with --verbose)
  -h, --help             display this help and exit
  -j [N], --jobs=[N]     set how many tasks may be executed in parallel at once (defaults to 0)
                           N=0 - run no more than the number of cpu cores + 1
                           N=X - run no more than x
  -v [N], --verbose[=N]  set verbosity (defaults to 1)
                           N=0 - print no additional information
                           N=1 - print which tasks are being executed
                           N=2 - ...also print the commands which are being executed
                           N=3 - ...also print debug info about script lines being executed
  -w, --watch            watch all files for changes and restart task whenever they change
      --version          display version information and exit

Fuller docs and info is available here.

Installing

Download the latest release and place the executable in your path

Or, install deno and execute the command:
deno install --force --allow-read --allow-write --allow-env --allow-run https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ProPuke/boop/master/boop.ts