I took a closer look at the html5 boilerplate lately.
It optimizes Images, concats and compresses anything with a little help from the YUI compressor.
What it doesn’t do yet is deploying stuff – but you can teach it ;)

Well let’s try it.
This post does decribe quite good what is possible

I’m using ant 1.8.0, so let’s do as adviced:

All features of the build script require Ant version 1.8.2. Please upgrade to 1.8.2 or remove all instances of ‘overwrite=no’ (and this fail task) from the build script to continue

Remove all overwrit attributes and the test task:

 <fail message="All features of the build script require Ant version 1.8.2. Please upgrade to 1.8.2 or remove all instances of 'overwrite=no' (and this fail task) from the build script to continue">
        <condition>
            <not>
                <contains string="${ant.version}" substring="1.8.2"/>
            </not>
        </condition>
 </fail>

then try:

cd build
ant

It works! in “publish” you’ll find the optimized web project.

Clear the buffer folder afterwards. Which is not necessary but is quite fun.

ant clean

To enable image optimization, one has to install the libs:

sudo apt-get install libjpeg-progs optipng

hint:

if you’re using additional javascript libs, which you don’t want to be concated,
don’t put them in between those comments:

 <!-- scripts concatenated and minified via ant build script-->
 <!-- end scripts-->

To carry things to the extreme let’s run the full minify:

ant minify

It also compresses the markup

clean up:

ant clean

Now i want to upload the publish folder:
I wanna use FTP via ant, so install dependencies first.
(see my post on how to do that)

you’ll also have to add the FTP properties in config/project.properties:

 #FTP deploy
 tool.ftp.host = host
 tool.ftp.user = user
 tool.ftp.password = password
 tool.ftp.remotedir = httpdocs

if you got the boilerplate dev version directly from github,
you’ll have the possibility to create a project.xml file with your own targets in it.
If you’re using the latest stable build you’ll have to put the task in the build.xml

The FTP task itself is pretty simple:

<target name="ftpupload" description="uploads the publish folder to your web space via ftp">
	<ftp server="${tool.ftp.host}" userid="${tool.ftp.user}" password="${tool.ftp.password}" timediffauto="false" remotedir="${tool.ftp.remotedir}" action="send" verbose="yes" passive="yes" depends="yes">
            <fileset dir="${dir.publish}">
            </fileset>
        </ftp>
</target>

and upload it:

ant ftpupload

so it’s those commands:

 ant minify
 ant ftpupload
 ant clean