Imba comes with three binaries imba, imbapack and imbac.
Imba ships with a basic node wrapper for running imba-scripts. Use imba the same way you would use node. Call imba without arguments to see available options.
imba app.imbawill compile and execute app.imba
The imbapack utility is a convenient wrapper around webpack, which preprocesses your config to include the necessary configurations for loading .imba files. It supports all the same options as webpack and will work with webpack.config.js files directly. When you use imbapack you do not need to declare an imba-loader and resolveExtensions in your configs.
imbapack app.imba bundle.jscompiles the file app.imba, and all required files into a webpack bundle named bundle.js. This file can be included in a html page like any other js-file. See webpack for more details.
imbapack --watch app.imba bundle.jssame as above, but recompiles whenever app.imba or any related files change.
> imbac src/ will compile all imba files inside src (recursively). By default, Imba will look for a matching lib/ directory, and save the resulting files there. If no such directory exists, it will save the resulting js files in the same directories as their corresponding imba files.
> imbac -o out.js input.imba will compile the file input.imba to out.js
> imbac -w -o lib/ src/ compiles all files in src to lib, and recopmiles when they are modified
All the other options can bee found by calling > imbac --help
The imbac utility is for compiling your scripts to js. When working on
client-side projects you should rather use imbapack but the the following
configuration should be sufficient in most cases:
{
test: /\.imba$/,
loader: 'imba/loader'
}