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Grunt Cookbook

By : Jurie-Jan Botha
Book Image

Grunt Cookbook

By: Jurie-Jan Botha

Overview of this book

<p>A web application can quickly turn into a complex orchestration of many smaller components, each one requiring its own bit of maintenance. Grunt allows you to automate all the repetitive tasks required to get everything working together by using JavaScript, the most popular programming language.</p> <p>Grunt Cookbook offers a host of easy-to-follow recipes for automating repetitive tasks in your web application's development, management, and deployment processes. This book will introduce you to methods that can be used to automate basic processes and your favorite tools. By following the recipes, you will soon be comfortable using Grunt to perform a wide array of advanced tasks in a range of different scenarios.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Grunt Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using command-line parameters


In the case that a configurable aspect of a task needs to change quite often, it can be inefficient to add it to the project configuration. This is where the use of command-line parameters can be useful as they provide us with a way to easily provide options to our task, without having to alter our configuration.

Getting ready

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.

How to do it...

The following steps will take us through creating a task that receives two strings using command-line parameters and uses them to print a message:

  1. We'll start by registering a task called welcome with a description and an empty placeholder function by adding the...