I have this gruntfile.js fragment
grunt.initConfig({
browserify: {
browser: {
src: [ require('./package.json').main ],
dest: './browser/shortid.js'
},
How would I perform exactly the same thing by calling browserify directly (without grunt) from bash command line? From what directory should I execute browserify?
The following command is equivalent and it would need to be executed in the same directory as your package.json:
browserify . > ./browser/shortid.js
Related
I'm also going through Steven Foote's book Learning to Program and am currently on chapter 4, which uses Grunt. This post has a similar problem, but the problem is different (this person capitalized the "f" in Gruntfile.js).
I've seemed to have installed NPM and Node properly
npm#5.10.0 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm
andrews-macbook-air:Kittenbook Andrew$ node -v
v8.11.3
Here is my Gruntfile.js:
module.exports = function(grunt){
grunt.initConfig({
concat: {
release: {
src: ['js/values.js', 'js/prompt.js'],
dest: 'release/main.js'
}
},
copy: {
release: {
src: 'manifest.json',
dest: 'release/main.js'
}
},
jshint: {
files: ['js/values.js', 'js/prompt.js']
}
});
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-concat');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-copy');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-jshint');
grunt.registerTasks('default', ['jshint', 'concat' 'copy']);
In checking to see if I did it correctly I run grunt jshint in the command line, but I get back an error
andrews-macbook-air:Kittenbook Andrew$ grunt jshint
Loading "Gruntfile.js" tasks...ERROR
>> SyntaxError: Unexpected string
Warning: Task "jshint" not found. Use --force to continue.
Aborted due to warnings.
Any ideas on what is going on?
I have this grunt file that creates a rpm package for me, how can I create a symlink like this for an example:
link("/usr/local/bin/tams-cli", "/opt/tams-cli/tams-cli.js")
Have not been able to to find that, here below is my source code.
grunt.initConfig({
pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('./package.json'),
easy_rpm: {
options: {
buildArch,
rpmDestination: './built/',
},
release: {
files: [
{
src: ['node_modules/**/*',
'js/**/*',
'cfg/*',
'package.json',
'readme.md',
],
dest: '/opt/tams-cli',
},
{
src: 'tams-cli.js',
dest: '/opt/tams-cli',
mode: 0550,
}
],
excludeFiles: [
'tmp-*',
'./built',
],
},
},
To create the symlink after the rpm package is installed utilize the postInstallScript option in your easy_rpm task. The description for the postInstallScript reads:
postInstallScript
Array<String>
An array of commands to be executed after the installation. Each element in the array represents a command.
In the Gruntfile.js excerpt below it utilizes the ln command to create the symlink using the additional two options:
-s to make a symbolic link instead of a hard link.
-f to remove existing destination files if they exist already.
Gruntfile.js
grunt.initConfig({
// ...
easy_rpm: {
options: {
postInstallScript: ['ln -s -f /opt/tams-cli/tams-cli.js /usr/local/bin/tams-cli'],
// ..
},
// ...
},
// ...
});
The source config example below processes files from src dir. There is src2 dir which also should be processed with the same tasks and putted to build2. What changes required in config.
module.exports = function (grunt) {
var saveLicense = require('uglify-save-license');
grunt.initConfig({
clean : {
build : {
src : ['build']
},
},
copy : {
files : {
cwd : 'src',
src : '**/*',
dest : 'build',
expand : true
}
},
...
Both grunt-contrib-copy and grunt-contrib-clean, like many other grunt plugins, allow multiple Targets to be specified in each Task.
For your scenario you can simply configure two Targets in the copy task (one Target to copy the src folder and another Target to copy the src2 folder).
You can also configure two Targets in the clean task (one Target to clean the build folder and another Target to clean the build2 folder).
Gruntfile.js
Your Gruntfile.js can be configured as ass follows:
module.exports = function(grunt) {
var saveLicense = require('uglify-save-license');
grunt.initConfig({
// The 'clean' task now includes two targets.
// named 'build1' and 'build2'
clean: {
build1: {
src: ['build']
},
build2: {
src: ['build2']
}
},
// The 'copy' task now includes two targets.
// named 'src1' and 'src2'
copy: {
src1: {
cwd: 'src',
src: '**/*',
dest: 'build',
expand: true
},
src2: {
cwd: 'src2',
src: '**/*',
dest: 'build2',
expand: true
}
}
// ...
});
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-copy');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-clean');
// Registering the Targets in the Tasks....
grunt.registerTask('copySrc1', ['copy:src1']);
grunt.registerTask('cleanBuild1', ['clean:build1']);
grunt.registerTask('copySrc2', ['copy:src2']);
grunt.registerTask('cleanBuild2', ['clean:build2']);
grunt.registerTask('copyBoth', ['copy']);
grunt.registerTask('cleanBoth', ['clean']);
};
Running the Grunt Tasks
You'll notice that there are six calls to the .registerTask(...) function at the end of the snippet. Namely; copySrc1, cleanBuild1, copySrc2, cleanBuild2, copyBoth, and cleanBoth.
They allow you to run the following commands via your command line:
$ grunt copySrc1
(This will copy the src folder to the build folder)
$ grunt cleanBuild1
(This will clean the build folder)
$ grunt copySrc1
(This will copy the src2 folder to the build2 folder)
$ grunt cleanBuild2
(This will clean the build2 folder)
$ grunt copyBoth
(This will copy the src folder to the build folder and copy the src2 folder to the build2 folder)
$ grunt cleanBoth
(This will clean both the build and build2 folders)
Notes
You probably only need to keep the two .registerTask(...) functions as follows:
grunt.registerTask('copyBoth', ['copy']);
grunt.registerTask('cleanBoth', ['clean']);
However, I included the other four .registerTask(...) functions as they demonstrate how you can call a single Target inside a Task using the semicolon notation (:). For example:
grunt.registerTask('copySrc1', ['copy:src1']);
In the above snippet the ['copy:src1'] part simply runs only the Target named src1 inside the copy Task.
Whereas:
grunt.registerTask('copyBoth', ['copy']);
... does not reference any Targets in the copy task, (i.e. no semicolon notation is used), therefore all Targets will be run.
To further understand Tasks, Targets, you can read my answer to this post.
Hope that helps!
I'm trying to use grunt in my ASP project, but for whatever reasons have get a stupid warning-message from Visual Studio.
How you can see down, the bower-task has been executed, but haven't uglify- and less-tasks. Gruntfile.js and folder "wwwroot" are in the same folder. What's wrong ?
This is console output in Visual Studio 2015:
> cmd.exe /c grunt -b "c:\T\BW\src\BW" --gruntfile "c:\T\BW\src\BW\gruntfile.js" bower
Running "bower:install" (bower) task
>> Installed bower packages
>> Copied packages to c:\T\BW\src\BW\wwwroot\lib
Done, without errors.
Process terminated with code 0.
> cmd.exe /c grunt -b "c:\T\BW\src\BW" --gruntfile "c:\T\BW\src\BW\gruntfile.js" uglify_default
Running "uglify:uglify_target" (uglify) task
Process terminated with code 0.
>> Destination wwwroot/lib/angular/angular.js not written because src files were empty.
>> No files created.
Done, without errors.
> cmd.exe /c grunt -b "c:\T\BW\src\BW" --gruntfile "c:\T\BW\src\BW\gruntfile.js" less
Running "less:dev" (less) task
>> Destination wwwroot/css/site.css not written because no source files were found.
Done, without errors.
Process terminated with code 0.
This is my gruntfile.js:
grunt.initConfig({
bower: {
install: {
options: {
targetDir: "wwwroot/lib",
layout: "byComponent",
cleanTargetDir: false
}
}
},
uglify: {
uglify_target: {
files: {
"wwwroot/lib/angular/angular.js":["src/angular.min.js"]
}
}
},
less: {
dev: {
files: {
"wwwroot/css/site.css": ["less/site.less"]
},
options: {
sourceMap: true,
}
}
},
});
grunt.registerTask("default", ["bower:install"]);
grunt.loadNpmTasks("grunt-bower-task");
grunt.loadNpmTasks("grunt-contrib-uglify");
grunt.loadNpmTasks("grunt-contrib-less");
Are you sure "wwwroot/lib/angular/angular.js":["src/angular.min.js"] is correct in your uglify step? Uglify is for minifying files, so it would seem as if you have the destination and source parameters reversed. You are also getting the message Destination wwwroot/lib/angular/angular.js not written because src files were empty. which would seem to indicate that as well.
The less step seems correct, but it can't find the less file you are trying to compile. Are you sure that site.less exists in a less folder?
Here is the less portion of the grunt file I just wrote, and it seems to work well, although getting the sourcemap to actually generate is still an issue. This is pretty much an exact equivalent of VS 2013 with Web Essentials installed. Compiling all less files in the content folder using autoprefix for the browsers we support, and puts the .css back into the content folder. It doesn't compile any less file that starts with _, as those are just includes/variables.
less: {
development: {
options: {
paths: ["content"],
compress: true,
plugins: [
new (require('less-plugin-autoprefix'))({ browsers: ["IE >= 9, firefox > 10, last 2 Chrome versions, last 2 safari versions, last 2 ios versions"], map: { inline: false } })
]
},
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: 'content',
src: ['*.less', '!_*.less'],
dest: 'content',
ext: '.css'
}]
}
},
I use grunt-contrib-concat, but it doesn't appear to work.
All file are in the folder.
I used --verbose to see the details, but everything seems to be working correctly.
concat: {
options: {
// define a string to put between each file in the concatenated output
separator: ';'
},
dist: {
// the files to concatenate
src: [
//'assets/javascript/components/*.js',
'assets/javascript/components/jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.js',
'assets/javascript/components/spectrum.js',
'assets/javascript/components/prefixfree.min.js',
'assets/javascript/src/jquery.menu_css3.js'
],
// the location of the resulting JS file
dest: 'assets/javascript/jquery.<%= pkg.name %>.min.js'
}
},
Running the tasks with --verbose:
Running "concat" task
Running "concat:dist" (concat) task
Verifying property concat.dist exists in config...OK
Files: assets/javascript/src/jquery.menu_css3.js -> assets/javascript/jquery.menu_css3.min.js
Options: separator=";", banner="", footer="", stripBanners=false, process=false
Reading assets/javascript/src/jquery.menu_css3.js...OK
Writing assets/javascript/jquery.menu_css3.min.js...OK
File "assets/javascript/jquery.menu_css3.min.js" created.
Running "uglify" task
Running "uglify:dist" (uglify) task
Verifying property uglify.dist exists in config...OK
Files: assets/javascript/jquery.menu_css3.min.js -> assets/javascript/jquery.menu_css3.min.js
Options: banner="", footer="", compress={"warnings":false}, mangle={}, beautify=false, report=false
Minifying with UglifyJS...Reading assets/javascript/jquery.menu_css3.min.js...OK
OK
Writing assets/javascript/jquery.menu_css3.min.js...OK
File "assets/javascript/jquery.menu_css3.min.js" created.