just-task

Just is a library that organizes build tasks for your JS projects. It consists of:

• just-task: a build task definition library
• just-scripts: sane preset build flows for node and browser projects featuring TypeScript, Webpack and Jest

Documentation

All the documentation is online at https://microsoft.github.io/just/

Change Log - just-task

1.12.0

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 08:01:39 GMT

Minor changes

• Build with TypeScript 4.5 (elcraig@microsoft.com)
• Bump just-task-logger to v1.3.0

1.11.0

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 22:22:46 GMT

Minor changes

• Add .cjs config support (tigeroakes@microsoft.com)

1.10.0

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:12:38 GMT

Minor changes

• Update dependency undertaker to v2 (email not defined)

1.9.0

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 02:16:34 GMT

Minor changes

• Add an option --esm to support imports of ESM packages (elcraig@microsoft.com)

1.8.0

Tue, 12 Sep 2023 08:02:05 GMT

Minor changes

• Add @types referenced by exports as dependencies (elcraig@microsoft.com)

Patches

• Update dependency @rushstack/package-deps-hash to v4 (email not defined)
• Update dependency fs-extra to v11 (renovate@whitesourcesoftware.com)

1.7.2

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:01:53 GMT

Patches

• Update readmes and homepage links (elcraig@microsoft.com)

1.7.1

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 08:02:09 GMT

Patches

• Remove an incorrect reference to yargs types (elcraig@microsoft.com)
• Bump just-task-logger to v1.2.1

1.7.0

Fri, 18 Nov 2022 22:40:12 GMT

Minor changes

• Require Node 14 (elcraig@microsoft.com)
• Bump just-task-logger to v1.2.0

1.6.1

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 08:02:22 GMT

Patches

• Update dependency bach to v2 (email not defined)

1.6.0

Sat, 10 Sep 2022 08:02:45 GMT

Minor changes

• Fix type of OptionConfig.default (elcraig@microsoft.com)

Patches

• Update dependency fs-extra to v10 (email not defined)
• Update dependency undertaker-registry to v2 (email not defined)

1.5.1

Sat, 10 Sep 2022 00:19:03 GMT

Patches

• Specify Node 12+ engines requirement (elcraig@microsoft.com)
• Bump just-task-logger to v1.1.2

1.5.0

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 17:04:30 GMT

Minor changes

• Upgrading package-deps-hash to latest major to remove transitive security vulnerability in validator package. (dzearing@microsoft.com)

1.4.2

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 23:58:46 GMT

Patches

• changes the dep from glob-parent which is old with chokidar directly (kchau@microsoft.com)

1.4.1

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 19:00:12 GMT

Patches

• adding a check to make sure the tasks are registered only for task functions (kchau@microsoft.com)

1.4.0

Fri, 02 Apr 2021 23:21:50 GMT

Minor changes

• just now accepts ES6 module as config (kchau@microsoft.com)

1.3.0

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 00:45:10 GMT

Minor changes

• adds a watch() API that will generate taskfunction that watches (kchau@microsoft.com)

1.2.0

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 23:51:57 GMT

Minor changes

• Add support for default config override (dannyvv@microsoft.com)

1.1.1

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:55:06 GMT

Patches

• fixing release pipeline and the empty lib folder (kchau@microsoft.com)

1.1.0

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 23:22:52 GMT

Minor changes

• Update typescript and other dependencies (elcraig@microsoft.com)

Patches

• exit code 1 for unknown just command (kchau@microsoft.com)
• Bump just-task-logger to v1.1.0 (elcraig@microsoft.com)

1.0.2

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 16:42:46 GMT

Patches

• Bump yargs dependency (1581488+christiango@users.noreply.github.com)

1.0.1

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 16:26:27 GMT

Patches

• Publish src folder (1581488+christiango@users.noreply.github.com)

1.0.0

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 23:06:25 GMT

Major changes

• removed just-stack-* (kchau@microsoft.com)

Patches

• Remove implicit SDI usage (darthtrevino@gmail.com)
• fixes publish (kchau@microsoft.com)

0.17.0

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 20:33:23 GMT

Minor changes

• resolve: add extensions option (elcraig@microsoft.com)

0.16.0

Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:48:46 GMT

Minor changes

• Resolve from custom resolve paths before Just location (email not defined)

  0.15.1

  Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:46:48 GMT

Patches

• change target in enableTypeScript (imjuni@gmail.com)

  0.15.0

  Fri, 10 Apr 2020 20:34:02 GMT

Minor changes

• Replace yargs with yargs-parser, taking over the command parsing (kchau@microsoft.com)

  0.14.3

  Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:09:42 GMT

Patches

• Show full stack on config file errors (elcraig@microsoft.com)

  0.14.2

  Fri, 18 Oct 2019 21:58:37 GMT

Patches

• esModuleInterop is important to have as true (kchau@microsoft.com)

  0.14.1

  Fri, 18 Oct 2019 21:33:45 GMT

Patches

• use full resolve logic for ts-node (kchau@microsoft.com)

  0.14.0

  Fri, 18 Oct 2019 19:52:03 GMT

Minor changes

• adds support for typescript just.config.ts (kchau@microsoft.com)

  0.13.3

  Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:57:52 GMT

Patches

• Remove void from task() return type (elcraig@microsoft.com)

  0.13.2

  Mon, 26 Aug 2019 22:53:18 GMT

Patches

• caching algo changed so it is faster (kchau@microsoft.com)

  0.13.1

  Mon, 22 Jul 2019 20:51:44 GMT

Patches

• fail the build if it has invalid config (kchau@microsoft.com)

0.13.0

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:35:28 GMT

Minor changes

• returns a wrapped task even when doing a task('foo', 'bar') form (kchau@microsoft.com)

0.12.2

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 17:08:46 GMT

Patches

• speeding up build cache (kchau@microsoft.com)

0.12.1

Fri, 05 Jul 2019 16:59:55 GMT

Patches

• Uppercase the S in TypeScript (orta.therox@gmail.com)

0.12.0

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 02:04:13 GMT

Minor changes

• added a no-op detection for packages that aren't build and have no scripts (kchau@microsoft.com)

0.11.3

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 20:19:42 GMT

Patches

• making build cache more accurately determine deps that aren't using just (kchau@microsoft.com)

0.11.2

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 20:15:20 GMT

Patches

• introduce ESLint to sources (43081j@users.noreply.github.com)

0.11.1

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 18:55:04 GMT

Patches

• fixes build cache so packages can have different path name than package name (kchau@microsoft.com)

0.11.0

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 21:16:34 GMT

Minor

• adds a bit more rigor to support build deps invalidation of cache (kchau@microsoft.com)

0.10.0

Tue, 04 Jun 2019 15:55:03 GMT

Minor changes

• Adds cache capability

0.9.9

Wed, 15 May 2019 18:44:04 GMT

Patches

• Switch microsoft in repo URL to lowercase

0.9.8

Tue, 14 May 2019 17:59:20 GMT

Patches

• Adds __dirname resolve as last resort

0.9.7

Fri, 10 May 2019 17:53:27 GMT

Patches

• Adds validation of command and a friendlier error message

0.9.6

Fri, 03 May 2019 19:49:20 GMT

Patches

• Show error message if it's a string

0.9.5

Wed, 01 May 2019 16:12:57 GMT

Patches

• Export the chain API from the root as well

0.9.4

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 21:46:55 GMT

Patches

• More explicit error logs

0.9.3

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 22:19:05 GMT

Patches

• really get rid of deprecation warning

0.9.2

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 21:21:58 GMT

Patches

• get rid of logs with the wrapped task

0.9.1

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:29:49 GMT

Patches

• gets rid of dep0097 warnings when running just tasks

0.9.0

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:09:58 GMT

Minor changes

• Adds API to allow injecting a task after task has been registered

0.8.1

Sun, 24 Feb 2019 04:07:27 GMT

Patches

• Fix breaks caused by just-task resolve using the same yargs instance to check config path

0.8.0

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 23:37:36 GMT

Minor changes

• Consistent interface naming

0.7.10

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 19:03:38 GMT

Patches

• Update package metadata

0.7.9

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:58:03 GMT

Patches

• Tests and docs for resolve

0.7.8

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:25:53 GMT

Patches

• Use new logger package

0.7.7

Wed, 20 Feb 2019 23:17:15 GMT

Patches

• Lock some dep versions

0.7.6

Tue, 22 Jan 2019 21:28:18 GMT

Patches

• deps update

0.7.5

Sat, 05 Jan 2019 20:47:28 GMT

Patches

• Fixed: make sure to display list of tasks that didn't complete

0.7.4

Sat, 05 Jan 2019 19:16:15 GMT

Patches

• Fixed: set proper exit code for cases where task function exits the process before top level task is reached

0.7.3

Sat, 15 Dec 2018 04:42:57 GMT

Patches

• fix bugs with config file search

0.7.2

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:56:45 GMT

Patches

• Fixed: config file argument now works again

0.7.1

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 18:16:47 GMT

Patches

• Fixed a bug with the new thunk replacement of just returning a function

0.7.0

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:57:17 GMT

Minor changes

• Get rid of thunk API

0.6.1

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:04:50 GMT

Patches

• Fixed resolution logic

0.6.0

Sun, 09 Dec 2018 23:01:57 GMT

Minor changes

• Adds thunk and condition meta functions

0.5.0

Sat, 08 Dec 2018 04:58:33 GMT

Minor changes

• streamlines API so the logger is not from the this context

0.4.2

Fri, 07 Dec 2018 22:20:28 GMT

Patches

• fix: pass the right argv to the consumers

0.4.1

Fri, 07 Dec 2018 22:10:50 GMT

Patches

• fix: makes conditon() work with series and parallel

0.4.0

Fri, 07 Dec 2018 18:17:23 GMT

Minor changes

• Adds a 'condition' task function that can decide whether to skip task or not

0.3.1

Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:16:09 GMT

Patches

• Adds resilience to CLI script

0.3.0

Wed, 05 Dec 2018 22:16:09 GMT

Minor changes

• Rename rig bin script to just

0.2.0

Wed, 05 Dec 2018 22:01:31 GMT

Minor changes

• Renamed to just

1.2.6

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 06:13:37 GMT

Patches

• Fixes globally installed just-task to check for local copy

1.2.5

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 05:15:26 GMT

Patches

• Fixed help command to actually list commands

1.2.4

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:48:20 GMT

Patches

• better failure logging and documentation

1.2.3

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:24:03 GMT

Patches

• Fixed default tasks

1.2.2

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:04:01 GMT

Patches

• Adding tests

1.2.1

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 18:39:51 GMT

Patches

• Adds better failure logging messages

1.2.0

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 06:31:09 GMT

Minor changes

• Adds default task support

1.1.0

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 05:18:13 GMT

Minor changes

• Added some readme and add support for yargs command module in task definition

1.0.1

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:54:11 GMT

Patches

• adding blank line to test publish

1.0.0

Sun, 02 Dec 2018 03:50:30 GMT

Initial release