In order for a task to function appropriately within a project, it often needs a way to get specific details about it. The standard practice for Grunt projects is to supply project-specific details in the configuration object provided in the grunt.initConfig function.
In this example, we'll work with the basic project structure we created in the Installing Grunt on a project recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Grunt. Be sure to refer to it if you are not yet familiar with its contents.
If any of the steps in this recipe seem hard to follow, be sure to check out the Creating a basic task recipe provided earlier in this chapter.
The following steps will take us through creating a task that prints out a message determined by the project's configuration.
First, we'll add some sample project configuration using the
grunt.initConfigfunction. The following code shows the contents of the entire Grunt file with the configuration highlighted...