Tasker JS Runner

• Write Tasker task as Javascript module
• Map profile name to module
• Auto refresh script during development mode

Guide

Installation

with npm

npm install tasker-js-runner --save

with yarn

yarn add tasker-js-runner

Usage

Defining profile map index.js

import TaskerJs from 'tasker-js-runner';

// Tasker Javascript modules
import notification from './modules/notification';

// Construct Tasker JS and pass in mapping information as an Object
new TaskerJs({
  // Profile name: module
  'Notification:All': notification,
});

Defining a module modules/notification

A module should contain an enter and an exit function.
The 2 functions will receive all the local variables from the profile's task via locals and a reference Tasker's global object via tasker.

export default {
  enter(locals, tasker) {
    // Example: Accessing local variables %anapp and %antitle from AutoNotification
    const content = locals.anapp + ' ' + locals.antitle;

    // Tasker's function can be accessed via the `tasker` object.
    tasker.setClip(content);

    // If you wish, you can also omit `tasker` by calling Tasker's function directly.
    // Behind the scene, `tasker` is mapped to the `window` object where the
    // Tasker's function live.
    flash('content');
  },

  exit(locals, tasker) {}
};

Asynchronous Execution

All module functions are wrapped inside a Promise, which will gracefully exit at the end of execution.
To ensure proper task exiting while running asynchronous code, always return a promise.

export default {
  enter(locals, tasker) {

    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
      setTimeout(() => {
        if (tasker.global('BLUE') === 'on') {
          resolve();
        } else {
          reject();
        }
      }, 1000);
    });

  },
  ...
}

Otherwise, you can also permaturely terminte the script. This will immediately stop the script from executing.

export default {
  enter(locals, tasker) {

    setTimeout(() => {
      tasker.exit()
    }, 1000);

  },
  ...
}

Sample project

https://github.com/amoshydra/tasker-js-runner-project

Setup on Tasker

Installing

1. Import the 3 tasks from the tasker-imports folder into Tasker
   • TJS_Development_Toggle.tsk.xml
   • TJS_RunScript.tsk.xml
   • TJS_UpdateScript.tsk.xml
2. Run [TJS_Development_Toggle] inside Tasker to set up the required global variables When [TJS_Development_Toggle] is run for the first time, it will set up all the necessary Global variables for Tasker-JS to run.
   • %TJS_ENV - Control the environment Tasker-JS-Runner to run development/production.
   • %TJS_DEV_REMOTE - The remote address where the your project script (a seperate project that make use of this library) will be downloaded. You will need to change the value of this variable in this task to match the IP of your project.
   • %TJS_LOCAL_PATH - The location where the project script will be saved (default to Documents/tasker-js-runner.js)

Using

1. Create a Tasker named profile (i.e. Notification:All) and select TJS:RunScript as its task.
2. Tasker-JS-Runner will detect the profile name and look execute the Javascipt module that's mapped into Notification:All in the Profile Map (see example from above