Dake

Dake is a dart command line task runner. It is the make of dart, much like rake for ruby.
It is designed to allow dart applications to have their maintenance & build tasks written in a dart file while allowing a simple and powerful way to run them.

Install Dake

1. Install Pub-Bin
2. Run pub-bin install dake

Use Dake

You can use Dake to run tasks that are defined in a DakeTasks.dart file.

Dake supports auto-completion for both bash and zsh. Pub-bin should have installed the completion scripts. If not, they are available in the Dake/tool directory.

To list all tasks available, simply run dake in the directory containing the DakeTasks.dart file. It will list all available tasks, their required arguments, optional arguments and named options.

To run a task, simply write dake task-name arguments. For example:

dake dev:version 4 2 --postfix beta

...will run the task dev:version with the arguments 4, 2 and the named option postfix = 'beta'.

dake assets:minify --build

...will run the task assets:minify with the build boolean flag set.

You can run multiple tasks serially with the + symbol:

dake dev:version 4 2 --postfix beta + assets:minify --build + dev:server 8080

...will run all the tasks dev:version, assets:minify and dev:server one after the other.

You can have fun with Dake in the DakeExample directory: an example DakeTasks.dart is given to experiment with Dake.

Write Dake tasks

A DakeTasks.dart file is a dart command line application that uses the package dake_tasks.

First add the dependency to pubspec.yaml:

dependencies:
  dake_tasks: ">=1.0.0 <2.0.0"

In your DartTasks.dart, import the package:

import 'package:dake_tasks/dake_tasks.dart';

Read the example file DakeExample/DakeTasks.dart. It is properly documented and explains all features of the package dake_tasks.

Finally, once all task classes have been defined, write the main function as followed:

main(args, replyTo) => DakeMain([list, of, task, classes], args, replyTo);

Note that setting @Param(type: 'file') or @Param(type: 'dir') will allow the bash and zsh autocompletion to complete the parameter / option with files.

dake_tasks API Documentation