labs-grunt

Requisites

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• node.js >= 0.8.0
• npm

Installation

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• Install Grunt CLI (command-line interface)

  • npm install -g grunt-cli

• Preparing environment

  • Creating file package.json with cmd npm init
  • Install grunt with cmd npm install grunt --save-dev
  • Install grunt plugins with same way of installed grunt npm install grunt-contrib-jshint --save-dev

  Below a example of package.json file

  {
    "name": "my-project-name",
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "devDependencies": {
      "grunt": "~0.4.5",
      "grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.10.0",
      "grunt-contrib-nodeunit": "~0.4.1",
      "grunt-contrib-uglify": "~0.5.0"
    }
  }

• Creting file Gruntfile.js

  This file is comprised of the following parts:

  • The "wrapper" function
  • Project and task configuration
  • Loading Grunt plugins and tasks
  • Custom tasks

  Below a example of this file:

  module.exports = function(grunt) {
  
    // Project configuration.
    grunt.initConfig({
      pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
      uglify: {
        options: {
          banner: '/*! <%= pkg.name %> <%= grunt.template.today("yyyy-mm-dd") %> */\n'
        },
        build: {
          src: 'src/<%= pkg.name %>.js',
          dest: 'build/<%= pkg.name %>.min.js'
        }
      }
    });
  
    // Load the plugin that provides the "uglify" task.
    grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-uglify');
  
    // Default task(s).
    grunt.registerTask('default', ['uglify']);
  
  };

Using

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• Executing grunt
  • Run cmd grunt
  • Run cmd grunt --help to list tasks

References

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http://gruntjs.com/ http://gruntjs.com/api/grunt