Grunt-Supercharged

A GruntJS generator for Yeoman that creates an optimized GruntJS project inspired by the HTML5rocks article 'Supercharging your Gruntfile'

Usage

$ yo grunt-supercharged

Optimization 1 : autoloading grunt plugins

By using the gruntjs module 'load-grunt-tasks' you don't need to manually load each task which can be cumbersome. This module will read the dependencies in your package.json and load grunt tasks that match the provided patterns.

before

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-recess');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-sizediff');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-svgmin');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-styl');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-php');
...

after

require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt);

Optimization 2 : Splitting configuration in individual files

The module load-grunt-config lets you break up your Gruntfile config by task. Every task has its own javascript file defined in the folder grunt.

folder structure

- myproject/
-- Gruntfile.js
-- grunt/
--- aliases.yaml
--- concat.js
--- uglify.js

grunt/uglify.js

module.exports = {
	dist: {
		files: {
  			'dist/js/build.min.js': ['dist/js/build.js']
		}
	}
};

The module requires an aliasas file (aliases.yaml) where you can register your task

grunt/aliases.yaml

default:
	- 'concat'
	- 'uglify'

Optimization 3 : only process modified files

The module grunt-newer builds a local cache and only execute tasks on files that changed since the last task has runned. This can speedup the build process enormously !

Simply prepend “newer:” to any of your tasks pipes

grunt/aliases.yaml

default:
	- 'newer:concat'
	- 'newer:uglify'
	

Optional modules

You can enable following handy modules through the interactive terminal.

• grunt-contrib-uglify
• grunt-contrib-watch
• grunt-contrib-clean
• grunt-contrib-sass
• grunt-contrib-jshint
• grunt-contrib-concat
• grunt-jslint
• grunt-contrib-csslint

Release notes

• 0.2.0
  • added grunt-contrib-concat as optional module
  • added grunt-jslint as optional module
  • added grunt-contrib-csslint as optional module
• 0.1.8
  • updated package versions
  • grunt-contrib-uglify is now optional
  • added grunt-contrib-sass as optional module
  • added grunt-contrib-jshint as optional module
• 0.1.5 - initial release

License

MIT License