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What's the name of the build system in coffeescript?


Asked by Belen Duncan on Dec 01, 2021 CoffeeScript



Cake, and Cakefiles. CoffeeScript includes a (very) simple build system similar to Make and Rake. Naturally, it’s called Cake, and is used for the tasks that build and test the CoffeeScript language itself. Tasks are defined in a file named Cakefile, and can be invoked by running cake [task] from within the directory.
Accordingly,
CoffeeScript is a programming language that transcompiles to JavaScript. It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. Specific additional features include list comprehension and pattern matching.
In respect to this, CoffeeScript started as an attempt to make JavaScript more readable. It does so by making many things optional, and, at the same time, enforcing other things. For example, arrow functions are used instead of the classic function declarations, not in addition to them.
Subsequently,
The biggest change in CoffeeScript 2 is that now the CoffeeScript compiler produces modern JavaScript syntax (ES6, or ES2015 and later). A CoffeeScript => becomes a JS =>, a CoffeeScript class becomes a JS class and so on. Major new features in CoffeeScript 2 include async functions and JSX. You can read more in the announcement.
One may also ask,
The command-line version of coffee is available as a Node.js utility, requiring Node 6 or later. The core compiler however, does not depend on Node, and can be run in any JavaScript environment, or in the browser (see Try CoffeeScript).