grunt-prepend

This grunt task has 3 methods append - appends to file prepend - prepends to file concat - concatenates an array of files

I find it useful to insert comments to files after they've been compiled. Example is if you decide to compile less files to the style.css file in a WordPress theme directory

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

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-prepend --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-prepend');

The "prepend" task

Overview

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

var prependThis  = '/* \n' +
            'Theme Name : My Awesome Theme \n' +
            'Author : Joe Buckle \n' +
            'Description : It\'s so awesome \n' +
            '*/ \n';

var date = new Date();
var appendThis  = '/* \n' +
            'Compiled on ' + date + '\n'+
        '*/';


grunt.initConfig({
    gruntPrepend: {

        // Prepend Method
        prepend : {
            options: {
                content: prependThis
            },
            files: [{
                src     : '../../style.css'
            }]
        },

        // Append Method
        append : {
            options : {
                content: appendThis
            },
            files: [{
                src     : '../../style.css'
            }]
        }

        // Simple concatenate files
        concat: {
            options: {
                fileOut: 'output.txt'
            },
            src: [
                'test1.txt', 'test2.txt', 'test3.txt'
            ]
        }
    }
});

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-prepend');
grunt.registerTask('default', ['gruntPrepend']);