SMOOOOSH.
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How would you smoosh a lion and a tiger? A tialiganer, right?  

![smoosh](http://f.cl.ly/items/3o0y3m3o2Z3l1e0i1V2V/Screen%20shot%202011-03-05%20at%2012.13.54%20AM.png)

SMOOSH is a tool for packaging your javascript projects... it will run jshint against your files, then build and minify your files if you'd like.  

to install smoosh do something like this...

    npm install smoosh

CONFIG
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Currently, smoosh requires a config.json file to work. Your config file should look something like this (check the examples folder for a working example):

	{ 
	  "VERSION": "0.1", //<-- optional
	  "DIST_DIR": "dist", //<-- optional
	  "JSHINT_OPTS": { ... }
	  "SOURCES": { 
	    "base": [ ... ],
	    "secondary": [ ... ]
	  }
	}

Your config options include:

  + VERSION: an optional version number which will be appended to your built files
  + SOURCES:
	+ key: the name of your compiled file (ie: 'mootools-core', 'base-bundle', etc.)
	+ value: an array of file paths to be bundled (ie. ['./src/drag.js', './src/drop.js'])
  + DIST_DIR: the directory to output your files to (if no directory is specified, 'dist' will be used)
  + JSHINT_OPTS: the options to use if running jshint


USING SMOOSH WITH TERMINAL
==========================

once installed with npm, smoosh can be accessed easily from the command line! Just create your config file (shown above), then run commands. Here's a list of some of them:


	//any of these commands will execute all smoosh tasks with config.json
	smoosh ./config.json
	smoosh make ./config.json
	smoosh -m ./config.json
	
	//executing either of these commands will destroy the dist folder
	smoosh clean ./config.json
	smoosh -d ./config.json
	
	//these will generate ugliyjs minified versions of your packaged source
	smoosh compressed ./config.json
	smoosh -c ./config.json
	
	//these will generate full, uncompressed version of your packaged source
	smoosh uncompressed
	smoosh -f ./config.json
	
	//executing either of these commands will build both compressed and uncompressed versions of your source
	smoosh build ./config.json
	smoosh -b ./config.json
	
	//these will run jshint against your uncompressed source
	smoosh run ./config.json
	smoosh -r ./config.json
	
	//the -a flag will run analyze.. you must include a build type for analyze to work
	smoosh -ca ./config
	smoosh -ba ./config
	smoosh -fa ./config
	
	//as you might have guessed, you can specify multiple flags at the same time
	smoosh -dba ./config //<-- this will clean the dist folder, build new files, and then analyze them
	
	

USING SMOOSH WITH THE CODEZ 
===========================

once installed, smoosh is pretty easy to use...

    var smoosh = require('smoosh');

Once required there are several methods available to you:

CONFIG
------
As stated above, smoosh requires that you pass it the path to your configuration json file. To do that, you would do:

   smoosh.config('./config.json')

CLEAN
-----
The clean method will remove your distribution directory

	smoosh.clean();

RUN
---
Run takes one argument; a string which specifies what to run. Currently run only works with jslint, therefore you can do either:

    smoosh.run('jslint');

	//or
	
	smoosh.run();

In the future we may add more useful things here.

BUILD
-----
Build is used to build your sources together. You can build uncompressed or compressed files or both! You can use it like this:

	smoosh.build('uncompressed');
	
	//or
	
	smoosh.build('compressed');
	
	//or
	
	smoosh.build() // <-- this will build both compressed and uncompressed


ANALYZE
-------
Analyzed is useful when you're curious if you're making your files larger or smaller. It will return relevant file size for uncompressed, compressed, or gzipped files.

    smoosh.analyze('uncompressed');

	//or
	
    smoosh.analyze('compressed');

	//or
	
    smoosh.analyze('gzipped'); //it gzips the compressed files only

	//or 
	
	smoosh.analyze(); //which will do analyze all types

MAKE
----
Make can currently be used as a shortcut to run all smoosh methods... It requires one argument, the path to the config file.json.

	smoosh.make('./config.json');
	
	//is the same as
	
	smoosh.config('./config.json').clean().run().build().analyze();
	
CHAINING
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Note: that smoosh supports chaining, if you're into that sorta thing.