build-tools.md

List of JavaScript Build Tools1

Yet another framework syndrome

Name	Date	URL	Stars
Jake	April 2010	https://github.com/mde/jake	848
smoosh	March 2011	https://github.com/fat/smoosh	316
anvil.js	February 2012	http://anviljs.com/	160
Grunt	March 2012	http://gruntjs.com/	7459
Gear.js	May 2012?	http://gearjs.org/	58
buildr	October 2012	https://github.com/balupton/buildr	212
mimosa	December 2012	http://mimosa.io/	323
modjs	December 2012	http://madscript.com/modjs/	349
automaton	January 2013	http://indigounited.com/automaton	198
james.js	March 2013	https://github.com/leonidas/james.js	28
Bud	April 2013	https://github.com/azer/bud	90
Brunch	August 2013	http://brunch.io/	3319
Gulp	September 2013	http://gulpjs.com/	4488
simplebuild	December 2013	https://github.com/jamesshore/simplebuild	5
Brocolli	February 2014	https://github.com/joliss/broccoli	631
Fez	February 2014	http://fez.github.io/	181

And these are just the ones written in JavaScript.

Projects which haven't had commits in the last couple months are strikethrough.