Over the past month, we have been taking steps to update and formalize spritesmith's API. It's fallen behind on the times and we wanted to fix it up.

Here's a short list of the things that we have changed:

• Broke up the test suite/spec hybrid into separate repos
  • https://github.com/twolfson/spritesmith-engine-spec
  • https://github.com/twolfson/spritesmith-engine-test
• Updated engine specification
  • Moved to constructor for Engine
    • Allows for setting options for engines on a per-task basis instead of a global singleton
  • Moved to streaming output over binary string/buffer
    • Allows for more efficient memory usage and faster writes to disk
  • Updated API to use async only for image initialization
    • Removes unnecessary async logic handling for sync actions
  • Added support for Vinyl as input
    • Allows in-memory engines like pixelsmith and canvassmith to better support gulp.spritesmith
• Updated spritesmith API to emulate underlying engine API
  • Broke down into constructor with 2 methods (i.e. createImages, processImages)
  • Moved to async only for image creation
  • Moved to streaming output for processImages
• Updated grunt-spritesmith to leverage streaming output
• Updated gulp.spritesmith to leverage Vinyl input support and streaming output
• Started a newsletter to make it easier to receive updates about spritesmith
  • http://eepurl.com/bD4qkf

A full list of changes can be found here:

https://gist.github.com/twolfson/d303342301cd7a1c0b4b

Links

Here's a full list of all the repos we worked on:

• grunt-spritesmith
• gulp.spritesmith
• spritesmith
• spritesmith-engine-spec
• spritesmith-engine-test
• Engines
  • canvassmith
  • gmsmith
  • phantomjssmith
  • pixelsmith