Psake
A build automation tool written in PowerShell (by psake)
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Build Automation in PowerShell (by nightroman)

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1,568 | 670 | |
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7.3 | 6.3 | |
4 months ago | 15 days ago | |
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MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Psake
Posts with mentions or reviews of Psake.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-08.
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Achieving single command Infrastructure deployment using PowerShell DSC.
You may use other tools too: psake, make, cake, fake or any other *ake you are familiar with. I look at them as a tools that make build tasks behind simple commands and help me answer: How did I run that code again?
- How do you guys make sense of a complex project on GitHub?
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How do you specify Debug or Release when calling Invoke-psake?
I use the psake PowerShell module to "build" my PowerShell modules. My psakefile.ps1 contains the logic needed to update the manifest with an incremented version, any new function/cmdlet names, and so on. Then it copies everything from .\src\ to .\output\modulename\version. All I do is call Invoke-psake build or Invoke-psake test, and this works great as-is for "pure powershell modules".
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What build tool(s) do people use for their applications?
I've used psake (powershell+make) https://github.com/psake/psake - the main thing that attracted me to this was that it wasn't an XML based system (Nant/MSbuild), and it handled task prerequisites very nicely. While some devs find powershell a bit of a pain to learn, they generally become useful very quickly, and I think it's useful to be able to do some level of powershelling anyway.
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pake: Just another Make but with Powershell
GitHub - psake/psake: A build automation tool written in PowerShell
Invoke-Build
Posts with mentions or reviews of Invoke-Build.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-28.
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Ask HN: Do You Prefer Powershell?
I use pwsh on all platforms. All automation is done with it, and in many cases web app functionality depends on it running in background all the time (for large public services).
Even our GitLab runner uses pwsh.
To organizse build/scripts we use Invoke-Build, a cross-platform task runner: https://github.com/nightroman/Invoke-Build
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Github pipelines/actions for .net build/deployment workflow?
Invoke-Build
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Achieving single command Infrastructure deployment using PowerShell DSC.
So I need to take a step back and Start-DscConfiguration won't be my entry point to deployment. I need a .ps1 script that installs modules. Or, bear with me, I'll be using a PowerShell build tool: Invoke-Build.
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Module workflow in VS Code?
I discovered the Invoke-Build build system, PSScriptAnalyzer for linting, and Pester for testing/mocking. I wrote a GitLab CI/CD pipeline that takes advantage of all of this to push releases to our company's PSRepo. I also discovered the Plaster template system for scaffolding new projects, and created a custom company template for standardizing our repo structures.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Psake and Invoke-Build you can also consider the following projects:
Cake - :cake: Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system.
NUKE - 🏗 The AKEless Build System for C#/.NET
FAKE - FAKE - F# Make
Albacore - Albacore is a professional quality suite of Rake tasks for building .NET or Mono based systems.
MSBuild - The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.
Nake - Magic script-based C# task runner for .NET Core
CS Make - Sake Build
FlubuCore - A cross platform build and deployment automation system for building projects and executing deployment scripts using C# code.

Nutrient - The #1 PDF SDK Library
Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free.
nutrient.io
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