Automated Build Process
Is there a way to automate the entire "build" process of a Roku channel? We have one code base that will result in multiple channels and would like to automate changes to the images, manifest, and ma...
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"MatroxRT" wrote:
You should check out Gulpjs
http://gulpjs.com/
Honestly, Gulp is pretty amazing, create a watch task on your brs files, and you can use it to auto-zip and deploy to a Roku device. A total time saver. You can also just have it run the makefile to get up and running -- I did this for months and it worked great, but now I have a variation that is pure javascript without the make dependency. You can have it do a bunch to automate that build process for the types of tasks you listed as well.
Coincidently, recently re something else i was wondering "gulp or grunt?" - did some reading and ran into this making the great point of "neither":
http://blog.keithcirkel.co.uk/why-we-sh ... ing-grunt/
also https://medium.freecodecamp.com/why-i-l ... .iljgyxfwe
(Spoiler alert: npm comes with Node.js and can do what you need sans plugin adapters/wrappers)
DIsclaimer: using npm, gulp, grunt makes sense only if one is a JavaScript developer and already uses Node.js for something else. No point whatsoever otherwise.
