Polyglot Gradle with Node.js and Play

Evgeny Goldin

Gradle eXchange, London October 28, 2013

Device per need

Language per need

Build tool per need?

The One

A year with Node.js

Dev => CI => Prod

Dev => CI => Prod

Dev => CI => Prod

npm install

node server.js

forever start server.js

Easy?

Automate this!

Bootstrap and versioning

npm install

Before and After listeners

Verified start and stop

Jenkins?

Chef?

Jenkins + Chef + Gradle

Can Gradle provision?

./gradlew

ghost.org

./gradlew -i start / stop / test / help

build/*.sh

npm install?

package.json

checksum

npm install

node_modules

=>

<checksum>.tar.gz

~/.npm

PUT / GET

MongoDB / Redis

github.com/fzaninotto/uptime

Grunt / Cake

./gradlew -i start / test / run

Where does it lead?

Polyglot Gradle

Ghost

Uptime

Zentasks

Node.js / MongoDB

Play / sbt

grunt

Bash is a new JavaScript

Build tool per need

The One?

“Be water, my friend”~ BRUCE LEE

Thank You

@evgeny_goldin

bitbucket.org/evgenyg/gradle-exchange

github.com/evgeny-goldin/gradle-plugins