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Grunt Cookbook

By : Jurie-Jan Botha
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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

Concatenating files


The practice of concatenating files is quite often found in the routines of all kinds of developers. Be it combining fragmented log files or many smaller source files into one big code base, joining files end-to-end comes in handy on a regular basis.

Concatenation functionality can be provided to us by the contrib-concat (0.4.0) plugin. Along with the standard Grunt configurations, it also provides a large set of options to tailor its behavior according to our unique requirements.

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.

How to do it...

The following steps will take us through concatenating three JavaScript source files into one combined source file, so that we only have to serve one source file along with our web application.

  1. We'll start by installing the package that contains...