hot-builder

A CLI tool for building custom Handsontable spreadsheet component.

Table of contents

1. Installation
2. Basic usage
3. Examples
4. License
5. Contact

Installation

Install the tool using npm.

npm install hot-builder -g

Basic usage

> hot-builder build

Builds custom version of handsontable.

Arguments:

• -i, --input - Path to a directory where Handsontable Community Edition or Handsontable PRO repository was downloaded.
• -o, --output-dir - Output directory where generated bundle will be saved.
• -a, --include-all - Includes all found modules into generated bundle.
• -A, --add-module - Includes specified modules into generated bundle (eg. -A ContextMenu,ManualRowMove).
• -R, --remove-module - Excludes specified modules from generated bundle (eg. -R ContextMenu,ManualRowMove).
• -U, --no-ui - Disables the UI.
• --repository-tag - Specifies which version of Handsontable Community Edition or Handsontable PRO repository will be cloned (eg. --repository-tag develop, or --repository-tag 0.32.0). This option is active only if you omitted -i, --input argument.
• --pro - Indicates that version specified by --repository-tag argument will be referring to the Handsontable PRO package.
• --debug - Debug mode - will output debug messages from workers.

> hot-builder -h

Displays hot-builder help information.

> hot-builder -V

Prints the installed hot-builder version.

Examples

Build your custom handsontable Community Edition package (from the handsontable remote repository)

$ hot-builder build -o hot-dist

Or build your custom handsontable Community Edition package using a local directory

$ hot-builder build -i path-to-your-handsontable-copy/ -o hot-dist

After executing command and selecting plugins, the builder automatically resolves all plugins and external libraries before building a package in the hot-dist directory.

If it works correctly, you should see something like:

Additional examples:

• Building Handsontable Community Edition package from the remote repository
• Building Handsontable Community Edition package from a local directory
• Building Handsontable PRO package from the remote repository
• Building Handsontable Community Edition package with specified plugins only

License

hot-builder is released under the MIT license. Copyrights belong to Handsoncode sp. z o.o.

Contact

Feel free to give us feedback on this tool using this contact form or write directly at hello@handsontable.com.