Advanced Grunt | Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner

Grunt plugins

With the concepts from the section above, it becomes easy to understand how Grunt plugins work. Grunt plugins are just normal Node.js modules (that is, any directory with a package.json file), with the addition that they contain a tasks directory with JavaScript files to load. As we have seen throughout this book, when we wish to load the tasks provided by a Grunt plugin, we call the grunt.loadNpmTasks function with the name of the module. This loadNpmTasks function is very similar to the loadTasks function described previously, however, instead of using a directory to find JavaScript files, it uses the name of a module and then looks inside that module for a tasks folder. Therefore, the following two lines are equivalent:

//Code example 03-load-plugin
grunt.loadNpmTasks("grunt-contrib-copy");
grunt.loadTasks("./node_modules/grunt-contrib-copy/tasks");

Now, with this in mind, if we want to create and share our own tasks, we can publish them as a plugin. All we need to do is:

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Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner

By : Jaime Pillora, Bocoup LLC

Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner

By: Jaime Pillora, Bocoup LLC

Overview of this book

Grunt plugins

Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner

By : Jaime Pillora, Bocoup LLC

Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner

By: Jaime Pillora, Bocoup LLC

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