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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

Enqueuing tasks to run


There might come a time that we would like to enqueue the running of the existing tasks from within our own task. This practice is not recommended because a well-designed task should usually be focused on a particular function and remain loosely coupled from other tasks. Tasks designed in this fashion generally tend to be more robust and useful in a larger variety of situations.

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 two simple tasks that print a string with one of the tasks enqueuing the other inside itself:

  1. We'll start by registering a task called first that prints...