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Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner

Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner

By : Jaime Pillora, Bocoup LLC
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Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner

Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner

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By: Jaime Pillora, Bocoup LLC
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Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner
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Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
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Preface
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Preface
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Introducing Grunt
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Introducing Grunt
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What is Grunt?
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Why use Grunt?
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Benefits of Grunt
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Real-world use cases
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Minification
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Concatenation
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Deployment
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Summary
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Setting Up Grunt
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Setting Up Grunt
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Installation
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Project setup
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Configuring tasks
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Summary
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Using Grunt
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Using Grunt
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Creating your own tasks
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Running tasks
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Using third-party tasks
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Grunt in Action
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Grunt in Action
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Creating the build
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Advanced Grunt
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Advanced Grunt
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Testing with Grunt
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Continuous integration with Grunt
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External tasks
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Grunt plugins
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JavaScript resources
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Development tools
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Index
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Index

Creating your own tasks

In this section, we shall explore the creation of Grunt tasks in more detail, specifically normal tasks and multitasks, and asynchronous tasks.

Tasks

As exemplified previously, creating tasks is extremely simple. We provide a name and a function to grunt.registerTask and we're ready to execute. Tasks (as opposed to multitasks) are best suited to build processes that will only be performed once in a given build. A real world example of such a process might be to update a deployment log file, which we could run whenever we deploy, providing a simple history of deployments for future reference. This task might look like:

//Code example 01-deploy-log-task
var fs = require('fs');
module.exports = function(grunt) {

  grunt.registerTask('log-deploy', function() {
    var message = 'Deployment on ' + new Date();
    fs.appendFileSync('deploy.log', message + '\n');
    grunt.log.writeln('Appended "' + message + '"');
  });

};

Note

See the Node.js API documentation for more information...

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