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grunt-boilerplate

Features

1. Modular and clean Grunt configuration (via load-grunt-configs).
2. No more grunt.loadNpmTasks(), all grunt tasks are automatically loaded (via jit-grunt).
3. Lazy-load Grunt tasks as needed, you no longer need to load a myriad of grunt tasks just so you can run the grunt-contrib-concat) (via jit-grunt).
4. Preconfigured watch task for your gruntfile.js and grunt tasks configurations so it will reload grunt if you modify them (via tasks/config/watch.js).
5. Load custom tasks from ./tasks (via grunt.task.loadTasks).
6. Your suggestions and feature requests goes here

Installation

1. First you have to download the files in your current working directory:

wget https://github.com/varemenos/grunt-boilerplate/archive/master.zip
unzip master
mv grunt-boilerplate-master/* .
rm -r grunt-boilerplate-master master tasks/sample LICENSE README.md

2. Then you have to install grunt and the boilerplate's required grunt tasks:

npm i -D grunt grunt-contrib-watch jit-grunt load-grunt-configs

Content & Structure

The boilerplate consists of a Gruntfile.js file and a tasks directory.

.
├── Gruntfile.js
└── tasks

The Gruntfile.js file

This is the grunt configuration file which contains all the necessary commands to load any grunt-tasks you've installed via npm and are currently in your node_modules directory

The tasks directory

In the tasks directory there are 2 things you can do.

1. Add your customs tasks.
2. Add your task configurations inside the config subdirectory (like for example the watch.js file which is the configuration file for the grunt-contrib-watch task).

.
├── Gruntfile.js
└── tasks
  └── custom_task_1.js
  └── another-one.js
  └── config
    └── watch.js
    └── sass.js
    └── uglify.js

Sample task file

module.exports = {
    my_task: {
        options: {
            async: true
        },
        dist: {
            src: ['input.js'],
            dest: 'output.js'
        }
    }
};

You can find more examples here.

License

The MIT License