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Learning Grunt

Learning Grunt

By : Douglas Reynolds
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By: Douglas Reynolds
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Overview of this book

With the increasing focus on task automation, the Grunt task runner is a vast platform that allows you to incorporate automation into your workflows. At the outset, you will learn how to use Node.js and NMP through an example. You will then find out how to build a sample app and the development environment for it. You will further delve into the implementation of Grunt plugins and the configuration of Grunt tasks. Furthermore, you will explore the various methods and packages for workflow automation. The final chapter will cover some advanced concepts, such as configuration variables and how to create a Grunt plugin. By the end of the book, you will have gained the fundamentals of Grunt and progressed through advanced concepts, including building a Grunt plugin.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Grunt Dependencies
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1. Grunt Dependencies
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Dependencies
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Upgrading or installing Node.js
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Installing the Grunt CLI
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Summary
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2. Foundation for Creating an App using Angular.JS
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2. Foundation for Creating an App using Angular.JS
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Installing Git
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Creating the Angular Seed Project
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Installation summary – a quick guide
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3. All about Grunt Plugins
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3. All about Grunt Plugins
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Obtaining Grunt plugins
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Common Grunt plugins and their purposes
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4. Configuration of Grunt Tasks
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4. Configuration of Grunt Tasks
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Reviewing the installation of Grunt tasks
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Discussing package.json and gruntfile.js
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Introducing the Grunt API
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5. Task Setup in the sample_project Application
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5. Task Setup in the sample_project Application
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Defining requirements of sample_project
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Gruntfile.js wrapper and configuration
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Gruntfile.js configuration
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6. Building the Sample Project
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6. Building the Sample Project
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Understanding task loading
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The default task configuration
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Functional testing
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7. Advanced Grunt Concepts
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7. Advanced Grunt Concepts
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Creating a Grunt plugin
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Index
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Understanding task loading

The process and syntax for loading a task are quite simple and very straightforward. In fact, the basic way to load a task is a simple one-liner using Grunt's loadNpmTasks method.

The syntax is:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('name-of-task');

The name-of-task, as shown in the example, would be the name of the task as defined in sample_project's package.json devDependencies object. So, for instance, to load grunt-contrib-uglify we would specify it as the argument in the loadNpmTasks method like this:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-uglify');

Using the LoadNpmTasks method

A little about loadNpmTasks. The loadNpmTasks method is a method that loads plugins installed locally with NPM (it will not load tasks installed via other means) and that have been installed relative to the gruntfile. In order to load tasks not installed with NPM, one would use grunt.loadTasks, an alias for grunt.task.loadTasks. Additionally, for tasks that have been installed with...

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