Handle dependent files with Grunt and rewrite paths - css

Question

This is my Gruntfile.js (assets is the Bower folder):
module.exports = function(grunt) {
grunt.initConfig({
distFolder: 'dist',
pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
concat: {
options: {
separator: ';',
},
dist: {
src: [
'assets/jquery/dist/jquery.js',
'assets/jquery-ui/ui/jquery-ui.js',
'assets/jsplumb/dist/js/jquery.jsPlumb-1.5.5.js'
],
dest: '<%= distFolder %>/main.js',
},
},
uglify: {
dist: {
src: 'dist/main.js',
dest: 'dist/main.min.js',
},
},
cssmin: {
combine: {
files: {
'dist/main.min.css': [
'assets/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css',
'assets/jquery-ui/themes/base/jquery-ui.css',
],
}
}
},
});
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-concat');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-uglify');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-cssmin');
grunt.registerTask('build', ['concat', 'uglify']);
};
All works fine, but as I suspected, Font-awesome will lose it's connection with its fonts when using grunt-contrib-mincss.
Can I automate with Grunt that it will do something like;
Copy font files from assets/font-awesome/fonts/ to dist/fonts/
Rewrite url(../fonts/ to url(fonts/
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

fonts, images, #imports in bower components or vendors may be relative or absolute depend on the component itself, you should config your cssmin task to rewrite relative resources to a correct path in dist path.
using following code, all resources urls will be rewritten using absolute urls.
cssmin: {
options: {
root: 'app'
},
combine: {
files: {
'dist/main.min.css': [
'app/bower_components/lib1/main.css',
'app/bower_components/jquery-ui/themes/base/jquery-ui.css',
]
}
}
}
it's important to set the root option to the base path of your input files. in your case I'm believe you should set the root option to "/" or ""
If you tell me your project structure, I can help more.
I though your project structure is something like this
/
/assets
/other_files
/dist