grunt-jsonmin

A wrapper for getify/JSON.minify as a grunt task

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

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-jsonmin --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-jsonmin');

The "jsonmin" task

Overview

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

grunt.initConfig({
  jsonmin: {
    options: {
      stripWhitespace: true || false,
      stripComments: true || false
    },
    files: {
      "path/to/destination/file" : "path/to/source/file",
      "path/to/another/destination" : [ "multiple/source/files", "are/supported", "as/an/array" ]
    }
  }
});

Options

options.stripWhitespace

Type: Boolean Default value: true

Not currently supported

Strips whitespace from the specified json file/s

options.stripComments

Type: Boolean Default value: true

Strips comments (// ... \n) from the specified json file/s

Usage Examples

See the Gruntfile for the usage examples from the test cases

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

• 26.04.13 -- v0.2.0 -- Minifies multiple source JSON files
• 25.04.13 -- v0.1.0 -- Minifies a single JSON file