Request: Autoload Plugins w/Programmatic

When used programmatically, fly doesn’t autoload & mount plugins, even though tasks are defined.

Minimal example: after creating new project, create following index.js and run node index.js

const Fly = require('Fly')
const fly = new Fly({
  tasks: {
    * default (fly){ yield fly.source('x.sass').sass().target('.') }
  }
})
fly.start()

Expected: new x.css file. Actual result: Unhandled rejection TypeError: fly.source(...).sass is not a function

I’ve also created minimal repo. Edit: Taken down since.

Node v6.9.1 LTS, npm v4.4.4, yarn v0.21.3

[lukeed]

We care about this lib & like working on it 😜

[lukeed]

Sorry, forgot to update this thread.

I played with auto-loading if plugins: true, but found that it’s not 100% consistent. The problem is that load (and some of its internals) are coroutines, and you can’t use 'em inside a class constructor.

The closest I got was to set up an .on('autoloaded') listener, but that’s where the inconsistency pops up. It’s asynchronous, so (older) machines may spend more time finding plugins & requiring them than expected. While that’s happening, Tasks could have been started & already thrown due to the “methods not found” error.

I’ll get back to this later, but it’ll have to be a class method on Fly.

const fly = new Fly({ file: 'path/to/foobar.js' });

fly.autoload().then(() => {
  fly.start('taskA');
})