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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

Creating a multi-task


Task configurations provide the most common way of tweaking the functionality of the tasks that we use in our project. With configurations, we can set up a task to fulfill our specific needs, and it also allows us to use the same task in various ways within a single project. The different configurations applied to the same task are called task targets.

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 simple task that prints the name of the target configuration and the data supplied to it:

  1. We'll start by registering a multi-task called display using the registerMultiTask function...