livescript-alloy

livescript-alloy is a LiveScript & Jade preprocessor for Titanium Alloy Framework.

This utility is a fork from lazy-alloy which uses CoffeeScript

Why?

It makes you write less code so that your could focus more on getting things done faster instead of syntax details. Optionally, LiveScript allows more functional thinking than CoffeeScript. See LiveScript Official Website for more insight.

Compile from sourcefile	To alloy readable output
src/controllers/{{name}}.ls	app/controllers/{{name}}.js
src/styles/{{name}}.ls	app/styles/{{name}}.tss
src/views/{{name}}.jade	app/views/{{name}}.xml
src/models/{{name}}.ls	app/models/{{name}}.js
src/lib/{{name}}.ls	app/lib/{{name}}.js

Also, it will compile your widgets from src/widgets stored in the following directories.

From	To
src/widgets/{{name}}/controllers/*.ls	app/widgets/{{name}}/controllers/*.js
src/widgets/{{name}}/styles/*.ls	app/widgets/{{name}}/styles/*.tss
src/widgets/{{name}}/views/*.jade	app/widgets/{{name}}/views/*.xml

Usage

Dependencies

• nodejs
• npm
• titanium (cli)
• alloy
• brain (optional)

Installation

1. Install Titanium Alloy Framework.
2. npm install -g livescript-alloy

Note regarding the *.ls –> *.tss conversion

The files need to be valid livescript objects; thus the first line of these files needs to be a variable assignment like the following

tss =
  ".container":
    backgroundColor: "red"

  "Label":
	width: Ti.UI.SIZE
	height: Ti.UI.SIZE
	color: "#fff"

Its output will look like this:

".container": {
  backgroundColor: "red"
},
"Label": {
  width: Ti.UI.SIZE,
  height: Ti.UI.SIZE,
  color: "#fff"
}

Perhaps something like stylus would be a better fit for this kind of job. Feel free to help us improve this section!

###Options Usage: livealloy [COMMAND] [OPTIONS]

Commands:

  compile                Just compile.
  watch                  Watch file changes & compile.
  build <platform>       Run titanium on `platform`
  new                    Setup the livescript-alloy directory structure.
  generate <type> <name> Generate a new (livescript-)alloy type such as a controller.

Options:

  -h, --help                 output usage information
  -V, --version              output the version number
  -p, --platform [platform]  (watch) When done, run titanium on `platform`
  -d, --directory [dirname]  Set source directory (default `src/`)