grunt seems the defacto standard and brunch seems a bit more powerful. However, stitch is still a reasonable solution.

We interupt this README to update you on changes this fork has from the original project: This fork updates stitch so that it can also bundle in libraries exposed via content distribution networks (or really just any http request). To add in an cdn library as a module, update the config file passed into stich as such:

config.urlpaths = ['http://path/to/lib/lib.js', ... ]

If you just want to add a cdn library as a dependency, just add it to the dependency list

config.dependencies ['path/to/local/dep/lib.js', 'http://path/to/cdn/dep/lib.js']

Stitch on the server side should be invoked asynchronously. Like so

app = express.createServer()
package = stitch.createPackage config, (err, package) ->
  src = package.compile (err, source) ->
    app.get '/app.js', package.createServer()

Modules are cached locally to stitch, dependencies are not.

Usage in browser javascript

myLib = require('cache-dir/host.com/path/to/lib/myLib')

This is still highly experimental. Known Issues

• Local cache of remote libraries can only be removed manually (just delete the directory)
• Usage

Now back to your originally scheduled README ....

Develop and test your JavaScript applications as CommonJS modules in Node.js. Then Stitch them together to run in the browser.

npm install stitch

Bundle code in lib/ and vendor/ and serve it with Express:

var stitch  = require('stitch');
var express = require('express');

var package = stitch.createPackage({
  paths: [__dirname + '/lib', __dirname + '/vendor']
});

var app = express.createServer();
app.get('/application.js', package.createServer());
app.listen(3000);

Or build it to a file:

var stitch  = require('stitch');
var fs      = require('fs');

var package = stitch.createPackage({
  paths: [__dirname + '/lib', __dirname + '/vendor']
});

package.compile(function (err, source){
  fs.writeFile('package.js', source, function (err) {
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log('Compiled package.js');
  })
})