This is a basic dust compiler, there are many out there. This one adds support for the OS X 10.8.x Notification Center and notifications on modern Linux desktops to bring more visiblity to compile errors when developing while the terminal window that it is running in is not visible.
You will likely integrate this into the project you are working on. Add this as a devDependency in your package.json and:
$ npm install
Next add a symlink to node_modules/.bin/dust-compiler anywhere you like in
your project folder.
Many Linux distributions ship with the notify-send tool already installed.
If not, you will need to install the "libnotify-bin" (Ubuntu) or "libnotify"
(RedHat / Fedora) packages.
To fire it up just do this:
$ ./dust-compiler -s source_path -d destination_path
Notifications will look like this:
Success!
or Failure :(
In cases where you are creating a new project and have lots of existing dust templates, you will want to bootstrap the files. To save time you can run the following to automatically build everything in the source folder.
$ ./dust-compiler -s source_path -d destination_path --bootstrap
Don't like the notifications? Prefer to watch the terminal window instead?
$ ./dust-compiler -s source_path -d destination_path --nonotify
This may not be of value to everyone, but it is to me. In some conditions you may need the name of the compiled template that is registered in the Dust.js cache to include the path. Using the same templates on server side and client side may require this. I added a switch for that.
$ ./dust-compiler -s source_path -d destination_path --includepath
You can load up your command line with just about everything.
$ ./dust-compiler -s source_path -d destination_path --bootstrap --includepath --nonotify