grunt-bookmarklet-wrapper

Grunt task to urlencode, concatenate and wrap JavaScript files to prepare for execution as a bookmarklet.

There is also a grunt plugin grunt-bookmarklet-thingy, but it is has no documentation and I have no idea what it does exactly. Also I needed certain features so I wrote this new plugin.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~1.0.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-bookmarklet-wrapper --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-bookmarklet-wrapper');

Although I recommend using load-grunt-tasks

The "bookmarklet_wrapper" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named bookmarklet_wrapper to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  bookmarklet_wrapper: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
      banner: '\n/*! <%= pkg.name %> by <%= pkg.author.name %> */'
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
      files: {
        'foo-bookmarklet.js': ['foo1.js', 'foo2.js']
      }
    },
  },
});

Example output:

javascript:(function(){alert('foo%20bar');})();

Properties

files

A key/value pair is accepted. The key is the path to the output file as a String, the value an array of Strings, the paths of the input files that will be urlencoded and concatenated.

Options

options.banner

Type: String Default value: ''

A string value that is prepended as banner. The banner is prepended to the generated code, and should be a comment with an end-tag or otherwise work well with the generated, escaped bookmarklet.

options.banner_prefix = '/*! Bookmarklet <%= pkg.version %> */'

Example output:

javascript:(function(){/*! Bookmarklet 1.0.0 */alert('foo%20bar');})();

options.asJson

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Generate a JSON file that contains an object with the bookmarklet stored in the attribute href.

Example output:

{"href": "javascript:(function(){alert('foo%20bar');})();"}

Usage Examples

Default Options

In this example, the fixture files are urlencoded and concatenated. Then they are wrapped in an script-targed url IIFE. So if the testing file has the content Testing and the 123 file had the content 1 2 3, the generated result would be javascript:(function(){Testing1%202%203})();.

grunt.initConfig({
    bookmarklet_wrapper: {
        default_options: {
            files: {
                'tmp/default_options': ['test/fixtures/testing', 'test/fixtures/123']
            }
        }
    }
});

Custom Options

In this example, an option is added to append a banner to the processed code.

grunt.initConfig({
    bookmarklet_wrapper: {
        custom_options: {
            options: {
                banner: '\r\n/*! <%= pkg.name %> by <%= pkg.author.name %> */'
            },
            files: {
                'tmp/custom_options': ['test/fixtures/testing', 'test/fixtures/123']
            }
        }
    }
});

Contributing

Follow the jshintrc settings for the code style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

• 2016-04-23 v1.2.0 Merged PR from git-j, updating dependencies and modifying banner to work as a prefix.
• 2015-04-25 v1.0.0 Extended and successfully ran unit tests. It's not required to remove inline comments (//), code after line breaks is still executed. There doesn't seem to be a way to programmatically test script-targeted urls, but manual tests were successful.
• 2015-04-25 v0.2.0 Minor fixes, documentation updates
• 2015-04-25 v0.1.0 Initial release