P is a text preprocessor designed for Pandoc (and more generally Markdown and reStructuredText). PP implements:
- macros
- literate programming
- GraphViz, PlantUML and ditaa diagrams
- Bash, Cmd, PowerShell, Python and Haskell scripts
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
GNU M4 is an implementation of the m4 macro preprocessor. Developed by the GNU Project, GNU M4 is designed to avoid many kinds of limits found in traditional m4 implementations, such as maximum line lengths, maximum size of a macro and number of...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
The C preprocessor implements the macro language used to transform C, C++, and Objective-C programs before they are compiled. It can also be useful on its own.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Gema is a general purpose text processing utility based on the concept of pattern matching. In general, it reads an input file and copies it to an output file, while performing certain transformations to the data as specified by a set of patterns defined by the user.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
A command line tool for squashing JS and CSS files. Used mostly for building UserJS.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
GPP is a general-purpose preprocessor with customizable syntax, suitable for a wide range of preprocessing tasks. Its independence from any one programming language makes it much more versatile than the C preprocessor (cpp), while its syntax is lighter and more flexible than...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (LGPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
This is a simple JavaScript preprocessor (written in javascript) to enable conditional compilation. The syntax of the preprocessor is a subset of the C preprocessor.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
jsmake is a basic javascript preprocessor/build utility (Perl script) that you can easily integrate in your continuous integration environment.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
wepp is a node module that processes LESS and JavaScript files in order to combine and minify them for production use. It depends on and makes use of fQuery.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
JavaScript::Ectype - A JavaScript Preprocessor designed for large scale javascript development.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Collection of Ant tasks for a JavaScript build process.
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Preprocess: This Ant task processes statements like #ifdef, #ifndef or #endif.
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YUICompress: This task compresses the specified script using the YUICompressor package. The YUICompressor will remove all unneeded whit.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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flintjs is a small JavaScript build framework, designed for building JS libraries. It's powered by Apache Ant.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
A variation on the C preprocessor that (1) works on multiple languages and (2) encodes preprocessor statements as comments in that language so syntax correctness is not broken.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
The build preprocessor is similar to the C preprocessor, meant for processing files which have no built-in preprocessor such as XUL and JavaScript documents.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux



































