This challenge consists of trying to use Assetgraph to build every example application implemented in TasteJS's TodoMVC project.
Rules:
Running the build system will be done like so: buildProduction --outroot <appname>-dist http://todomvc.com/path/to/appname
The buildProduction binary I'm running can be found here. It is a part of Assetgraph-builder, which is wrapped by Grunt-reduce, making them functionally identical. This should ensure that my results will be reproducible if you choose to switch your build step to grunt-reduce.
I will log my progress with building each of the apps, showing you build success or failure, what steps I had to take to make the build work and what bugs I found and had to fix.
My end goal with creating this challenge is to prove the worth of assetgraph as a build system stable enough to be a plug in replacement for the current Grunt build chain that is auto generated by most Yeoman generators.
Out of total TodoMVC apps, are working, are not working and are so far untested. apps are following a bad development practice which assetgraph will never support.
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