Gears

The goal behind Gears is to provide a toolkit for optimizing performance of a client-side heavy Web application.

Through the help of external plugins, Gears can also handle other markup languages besides just plain CSS and JavaScript.

This includes Stylus, CoffeeScript, Handlebars and Less.

Gears was inspired by a similar asset packager from Ruby, Sprockets.

Features:

• Client-side templates
• Dependency management options
• New languages can be easily added anytime
• Caching system
• Python 3 compatibility
• Node.js friendly
• Supports many compressors (clean-css, UglisfyJS, cssmin, SlimIt)

What is new in this release:

• The information about registered search paths is available through the paths property of the Environment class. Search paths can be useful for compilers to resolve internal dependencies.
• Add params directive to set asset parameters. Asset parameters can be used to change behavior of plugins for the current asset.

What is new in version 0.5.1:

• Fixed saving handled assets.
• Python 3.3 is also supported.