Grunt CSS import and paths - css

Question

I have the following setup in Grunt for the concat and minification of my projects css
cssmin: {
options: {
},
concat: {
files: {
'dist/app.css': [
'tmp/*.css',
'app/theme/css/vendors/fontello.css',
'app/theme/js/vendors/revolution/css/settings.css',
'app/theme/css/styles.css',
'app/theme/css/media-queries.css',
'app/app.css'
]
}
},
min: {
files: [{
src: 'dist/app.css',
dest: 'dist/app.css'
}]
}
},
It works fine with the exception that, as far as I can tell its removed the following import statement
#import url("http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:100,300,400,700,900,100italic,300italic,400italic,700italic,900italic");
And all 3rd party css files have relative image paths which are not resolved. I can see cssmin uses clean css which should be able to help handle these issues but after hours of searching and reading the docs I can't any clear examples or doucmentation on how to configure the above to solve this?

Answer 1

I used Ze Rubeus suggestion of moving my font import statement into the HTML instead (a little annoying as it means modifying a 3rd party css file). But I found the option for fixing the css paths which is
rebase: true,
relativeTo: './'
My cssmin configuration now looks like
cssmin: {
options: {
rebase: true,
relativeTo: './'
},
concat: {
files: {
'dist/app.css': [
'tmp/*.css',
'app/theme/css/vendors/fontello.css',
'app/theme/js/vendors/revolution/css/settings.css',
'app/theme/css/styles.css',
'app/theme/css/media-queries.css',
'app/app.css'
]
}
},
min: {
files: [{
src: 'dist/app.css',
dest: 'dist/app.css'
}]
}
}
And everything is working :)

Answer 2

You have to change all you import PATH depend on this directory 'dist/app.css'
And instead of css font import I advice you to use the HTML link like the following
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:100,300,400,700,900,100italic,300italic,400italic,700italic,900italic' type='text/css'>
make sure to change all url Path's on these directory's :
'tmp/*.css',
'app/theme/css/vendors/fontello.css',
'app/theme/js/vendors/revolution/css/settings.css',
'app/theme/css/styles.css',
'app/theme/css/media-queries.css',
'app/app.css'
depend on this output 'dist/app.css': because there is no task in gruntjs who correct the import Path in css files for you !
regarding your code the watch task need's to be something like so :
watch: {
css: {
files: ['tmp/*.css',
'app/theme/css/vendors/fontello.css',
'app/theme/js/vendors/revolution/css/settings.css',
'app/theme/css/styles.css',
'app/theme/css/media-queries.css',
'app/app.css'],
tasks: ['concat','cssmin'],
options: { spawn: false }
}
},
And execute this command grunt watch in your terminal to keep automatically tracking for changes in these files and apply these tasks .