build-tools.md

List of JavaScript Build Tools

Yet another framework syndrome

Name	Date	URL	Stars
Jake	April 2010	https://github.com/mde/jake	1000
Brunch	January 2011	http://brunch.io/	3882
smoosh	March 2011	https://github.com/fat/smoosh	329
anvil.js	February 2012	https://github.com/anviljs/anvil.js	161
ShellJS includes one	March 2012	http://documentup.com/arturadib/shelljs#make-tool	2171
Grunt	March 2012	http://gruntjs.com/	9039
Gear.js	May 2012?	http://gearjs.org/	78
assetgraph-builder	September 2012	https://github.com/assetgraph/assetgraph-builder	365
buildr	October 2012	https://github.com/balupton/buildr	217
mimosa	December 2012	http://mimosa.io/	445
modjs	December 2012	http://madscript.com/modjs/	450
automaton	January 2013	http://indigounited.com/automaton	210
harp	February 2013	http://harpjs.com/	2615
james.js	March 2013	https://github.com/leonidas/james.js	32
Bud	April 2013	https://github.com/azer/bud	175
Gulp	September 2013	http://gulpjs.com/	11,264
simplebuild	December 2013	https://github.com/jamesshore/simplebuild	8
Brocolli	February 2014	https://github.com/joliss/broccoli	1842
Fez	February 2014	http://fez.github.io/	271
cha	February 2014	https://github.com/chajs/cha	183
builder2.js	April 2014	https://github.com/componentjs/builder2.js	43
sigh	December 2014	https://github.com/sighjs/sigh	85

And these are just the ones written in JavaScript.

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