About

Buildr is a collection of Ant tasks designed to make common front-end tasks easy. Even though Ant was originally designed for use with Java projects, it is well-suited for manipulating JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and images due to some very simple and easy tasks available out of the box.

I've built many Ant-based build systems for front-end projects and found that there were a bunch of common tasks I always ended up using: validation, minification, documentation generation, etc. I started Buildr as a project to collect all of these tasks for easier reuse in projects.

The true goal of Buildr is to make creating front-end build scripts dead simple with Ant.