optimize

Use

The following uses steal-tool's optimize method to programatically build out the "my-app" module as bundles.

var path = require("path");
var stealTools = require("steal-tools");

var promise = stealTools.optimize({
  config: path.join(__dirname, "package.json!npm")
}, {
  // the following are the default values, so you don't need
  // to write them.
  minify: true,
  debug: true
});

This will build bundles like:

/dist/bundles/
  my-app.js
  my-app.css

To load the bundles, a html page should have a script tag like:

<script src="./dist/my-app.js"></script>

splitLoader

Setting the splitLoader option to true creates a bundle that only includes the code of the optimized loader shim.

var path = require("path");
var stealTools = require("steal-tools");

var promise = stealTools.build({
  main: "my-app",
  config: path.join(__dirname, "package.json!npm")
}, {
  splitLoader: true
});

This will build bundles like:

/dist/bundles/
  loader.js
  my-app.js
  my-app.css

To load the bundles, a html page should have a script tag that loads the loader and one that loads the application code:

<script src="./dist/bundles/loader.js" async></script>
<script src="./dist/bundles/my-app.js" async></script>

The optimized loader can handle async loading, which means order is not relevant when adding the script tags.

dest

The dest option specifies a folder where the distributables (which includes your bundles and possibly other assets) are written.

var path = require("path");
var stealTools = require("steal-tools");

var promise = stealTools.optimize({
  config: path.join(__dirname, "package.json!npm")
}, {
  dest: path.join(__dirname, "mobile", "assets"),
});

This will build bundles like:

/mobile/assets/bundles
  my-app.js
  my-app.css

To load the bundles, a html page should have a script tag like:

<script src="../mobile/assets/bundles/my-app.js"></script>