grunt-firefox-manifest

Create a Firefox manifest from your projects package.json.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.2

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-firefox-manifest --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-firefox-manifest');

The "firefoxManifest" task

Overview

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

grunt.initConfig({
  firefoxManifest: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

The package.json section

Add a section firefoxManifest to your package.json where you provide the needed information for the manifest. If you don't provide name, description, version or developer in the firefoxManifest section, then the fields of the package.json will be used instead (developer falls back to author).

Assume we have a package.json like the following:

{
  "name": "My App",
  "description": "My App description",
  "version": "0.4.0",
  "author": {
    "name": "The developer",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "url": "http://example.com/"
  },
  "engines": {
    "node": ">= 0.8.0"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "test": "grunt test"
  },
  "firefoxManifest": {
    "permissions": {
      "geolocation": {
        "description": "Required to locate you."
      }
    },
    "icons": {
      "128": "/img/icon-128.png"
    },
    "appcache_path": "/manifest.appcache",
    "launch_path": "/"
  }
}

This will generate the following manifest.webapp:

{
  "name": "My App",
  "description": "My App description",
  "version": "0.4.0",
  "permissions": {
    "geolocation": {
      "description": "Required to locate you."
    }
  },
  "icons": {
    "128": "/img/icon-128.png"
  },
  "appcache_path": "/manifest.appcache",
  "launch_path": "/",
  "developer": {
    "name": "The developer",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "url": "http://example.com/"
  }
}

Options

options.packageJson

Type: String Default value: 'package.json '

The location of the package.json to use as the data source.

options.manifest

Type: String Default value: 'manifest.webapp'

The location where to write the Firefox manifest to.

Usage Examples

Default Options

Using the default options generates a manifest.webapp file next to your package.json.

grunt.initConfig({
  firefoxManifest: {
    options: {}
  },
});

Custom Options

If one of the files is located in a different location, pass the path to it as a param:

grunt.initConfig({
  firefoxManifest: {
    options: {
      packageJson: 'app/package.json',
      manifest: ' dist/manifest.webapp',
    }
  },
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

0.1.0

• Initial release