grunt-plist

Grunt plugin for patching macOS plist files

Grunt

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-plist --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-plist');

The "plist" task

Overview

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

grunt.initConfig({
    plist: {
        intel: {
            'file': "build/tmp/HTML5test-darwin-x64/HTML5test.app/Contents/Info.plist",
            'properties': {
                'LSRequiresNativeExecution': false
            }
        }
    }
})

For each .plist file that you want to patch you can add a section. Each sections has two options that you need to set, such as the path to the plist file and which properties you want to set.

file

Type: String

The .plist file you want to patch. The original file will be overwritten with the changes listed in the properties object.

properties

Type: Object

An object containing all keys and values that will be overwritten or appended to the already existing .plist file. Properties not listed here will be copied over from the original file.