May the god of fortune bring your project fortune

Tyche is a build tool, for use in places like TeamCity, Jenkins, TravisCI and most importantly, on your very own development machine.

No more will you be trying to replicate a build failure that you witness in a log output. You will be able to run the exact same build process that you run locally ... anywhere, on any machine or platform.

How Tyche works

Tyche works through a concept of tasks and studies that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Tasks are defined in a tyche.json file. They can be related to one another by setting dependencies on other tasks.

Why Tyche exists

Everywhere I've worked, every project I've worked on (for pleasure, or profit), I seem to spend several hours or more putting together a build process.

This isn't ideal, so I've taken many hours building a general purpose tool that can handle many of the things that I've seen and built into other tools.

Getting started

Requirements

Windows:

• node 6.x+

Linux/OSX:

• node 5.x+

Installing

As simple as npm install -g tyche...

See the great getting started guide at the tyche docs.

Configuring

If you are building a javascript project, a good starting point might be:

{
  "settings": {
    "defaultTool": "native"
  },
  "tasks": [
    {
      "name": "clean",
      "description": "Removes all build dependencies",
      "tasks": [
        {
          "name": "node_modules",
          "description": "Clean node_modules",
          "exec": {
            "native-nix": {
              "command": ["rm","-rf","node_modules"]
            },
            "native-win": {
              "command": ["rmdir","node_modules","/s"]
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "build",
      "description": "Build this project",
      "tasks": [
        {
          "name": "dependencies",
          "description": "Install build dependencies",
          "exec": {
            "native": {
              "command": ["npm","install"]
            }
          },
          "skips": {
            "files_not_changed": [
              "package.json"
            ],
            "path_exists": [
              "node_modules"
            ],
            "skip_dependencies_if_skip": true
          }
        },
        {
          "name": "build-project",
          "description": "Actually build the thing...",
          "tasks": [
            "dependencies"
          ],
          "exec": {
            "native": {
              "command": ["npm","run","build"]
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

After which, running tyche --help will show

Usage: tyche [options] [command]


  Commands:

    clean [options] [node_modules]                Removes all build dependencies
    build [options] [dependencies|build-project]  Build this project
    init                                          Initialize the tool in this repository
    bump [options]                                Bump the build number +1

  Options:

    -h, --help     output usage information
    -V, --version  output the version number
    -v, --verbose  Turn on verbose logging

You can now run the tasks defined by simply calling tyche.

Build numbers

Tyche supports build numbers in plain old number form, or semver.

Running tyche

clone this repo, then

1. npm install -g tyche
2. tyche build
3. tyche test

Contributing

1. fork the repo
2. clone the fork

• npm test -- --watch to run unit tests while you work
• npm run build-cli to build the cli
• npm link to install the cli to your system
• tyche --help to see how to have tyche build itself

Sling some code and then open a Pull Request back to this repo