brunch/brunch

🍴 Web applications made easy. Since 2011.

Source code at GitHub https://brunch.github.io

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Brunch

Web applications made easy. Since 2011.

Fast front-end web app build tool with simple declarative config and seamless incremental compilation for rapid development.

⚠️ Deprecation Notice

This brunch NPM package is deprecated and has been transferred to a new owner.

What happened?

This package was previously maintained by @paulmillr. Due to low usage and a request from a third party who wanted to use the package name for their own project, ownership has been transferred.

I have no affiliation with the new owner or their software.

Security Warning 🔐

This is important: future versions of this package will be published by a different author for a completely unrelated purpose. This means:

You should not assume future versions are safe to upgrade to without review.
If you have this package as a dependency, pin to the last version published by the original author (see below).
Blindly running npm update or npm install in the future could pull in software from an unknown third party.

This is not a reflection on the new owner’s intentions — it is simply good security hygiene when a package changes hands entirely.

What you should do

Check if you actually depend on this package. Run:
Terminal window
```
npm ls brunch
```
If you do depend on it, pin to the last safe version in your package.json:
```
"brunch": "4.0.2"
```
Migrate away if possible. This package will not receive any further updates from the original author.

Last safe versions

These versions are considered safe:

npm install -g brunch@1.7.20
npm install -g brunch@1.8.5
npm install -g brunch@2.10.17
npm install -g brunch@3.0.0
npm install -g brunch@4.0.2

To verify integrity, sha256 checksums:

eb4f81d7797f60158a9cf11120e34fbae4720aff23a8379ce7b5d27eba3d04b0  brunch-1.7.20.tgz
5e58be14c4c2fe4fed1be12ad0e781f60f16bae67dc034a3b4e3d0d43d579a7a  brunch-1.8.5.tgz
620be47e542d828cf78166a8bc3bbf803f95d6309a5163cd8a18d76320ddba95  brunch-2.10.17.tgz
56aee6d89805acab17e53179d470b2c1a59c8ed24ade7b3e67ff3af2c5ba3b68  brunch-2.10.9.tgz
179bdbb0d33aafcc2aa7067107ad73effbe94aef09744e08a3b5f530228aa9e3  brunch-3.0.0.tgz
af179ebc33d22e7b5af4b61e498ad0e8f5f6edcf3190aea0ed33d19d26b9286e  brunch-4.0.2.tgz

Thank you to everyone who used this package. Stay safe out there.

Learn

Visit brunch.github.io
Read brunch docs
Follow us on Twitter: @brunch
Ask questions on Stack Overflow with #brunch tag

Usage

Create a new Brunch project: brunch new [--skeleton url]
- skeleton specifies a skeleton from which your application will be initialized. The default skeleton (dead-simple) doesn’t have any opinions about frameworks or libraries.
- brunch.github.io/skeletons contains over 50 boilerplate projects, which you can use to init your app from.
Develop with Brunch: brunch watch --server
- tells Brunch to watch your project and incrementally rebuild it when source files are changed. The optional server flag launches a simple web server with push state support.
Deploy with Brunch: brunch build --production
- builds a project for distribution. By default it enables minification.

Contributing

See the CONTRIBUTING.md document for more info on how to file issues or get your head into the Brunch’s internals.

To install edge version (from GitHub master branch): npm install -g brunch/brunch
To enable debug mode, simply pass -d flag to any command like that: brunch build -d
To create your own plugin, check out our plugin boilerplate as a starting point.

License

See LICENSE file.