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 need later. Our documentation generator will be JSDoc, chosen because it’s fairly mature, has a [...]

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 file- just include a link to JQuery on Google Libraries and you won’t need to [...]

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 directly to the js-maven-plugin project on github. Since there’s no sense in rebuilding something that [...]

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 established development practice. In this and the subsequent posts, I will walk you through the [...]