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JS-Maven Roundup and Roadmap

To those of you who’ve been paying attention to the original project on GitHub, you’ve probably noticed that there’ve been a lot of changes there recently without any subsequent updates here. I’d like to take a moment to summarize what

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Building a JSDoc Runner for Maven

The next step in this plugin is to ensure that we can generate documentation. While it may seem like a stretch to do this so early in the process, it forces us to build a few other pieces that we’ll

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Building a Javascript Dependency Resolver in Maven

Dependency resolution, to most javascript developers, means adding another <script> include in the header of their html page, and in most cases this is fine. In fact in 95% of any javascript applications you don’t even have to host this

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Building a Javascript Compiler for Maven

This post is one in a series where I slowly assemble a Maven workflow for large javascript projects. If you came here via google, I recommend starting at the beginning: Designing a Javascript Maven Plugin. Alternatively, you can just go

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Designing a Javascript Maven Plugin

As mentioned in my previous post, I believe that the tooling for enterprise grade javascript applications is simply not there yet. What is needed is a set of tools, preferably open source, that are framework agnostic and that fit into

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