Grunt task that can copy 'default files' to a destination directory? - gruntjs

Question

Does anyone know how I can create a custom Grunt task that is able to copy files saved within the published grunt task?
For example the task:
node_modules/grunt-foo/tasks/foo.js
node_modules/grunt-foo/tasks/support/foo-boilerplate.txt
The task in my Gruntfile
foo: {
dest: "target/foo"
}
When the task runs I would want "foo-boilerplate.txt" to "target/foo/".
target/foo/foo-boilerplate.txt
There'll be more going on in the task so I don't want to imply that all I'm doing is copying boilerplate code over. It is just one use case within the task.
Can someone give me an example of how I can do this within my foo.js task file?

Answer 1

So, you want to copy some files to some destination, right?
Start by defining that copy operation using grunt-contrib-copy:
copy: {
boilercode: {
src: ['node_modules/grunt-foo/tasks/support/foo-boilerplate.txt'],
dest: 'target/foo',
},
},
Then you want your foo task to perform a number of other tasks, including that copy operation:
grunt.registerTask('foo', ['copy:boilercode', 'anothersupertask', 'yetanothertask']);
... all you now have to do is have something done in anothersupertask.
grunt. registerMultiTask('anothersupertask', 'super!', function(){})
Am I missing something? (I don't know what you call "the published grunt task")
For reference:
grunt-contrib-copy
grunt tasks

Answer 2

I found a solution. Within my multi-task I used __dirname to reference the directory that were the task was located.
var fileToCopy = path.join(__dirname, "support", "foo-boilerplate.txt");
file.copy(fileToCopy, path.join(target, "foo-boilerplate.txt"));