grunt-smaller

Grunt plugin wrapper for Smaller, a minification service for javascript and stylesheets.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt >=0.4.0

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-smaller --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-smaller');

The "smaller" task

Overview

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

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

Usage Examples

grunt.initConfig({
  smaller: {
    dist: {
      options: {
        // mandatory options:
        'host': 'localhost', // "smaller" server needs to be set up & running
        'in': 'sampleFiles/js/app.json,sampleFiles/css/app.less',
        'out': 'js/app-min.js,css/app-base64-min.css',
        'target': 'dist/',
        // further options with default values:
        'processor': 'closure,uglifyjs,lessjs,yuiCompressor,cssembed',
        'cleanup': true,  // clean up temp folder after running
        'port': 80,
        'protocol': 'http://',
        'options': 'output:out-only=true'
      },
      files: [
        {src: [
          'sampleFiles/js/**/*.js',
          'sampleFiles/css/*.less',
          'sampleFiles/img/**/*.*',
          '!**/*.bin',
          '!sampleFiles/js/*-min.js'
        ]}
      ]
    }
  }
})

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

• 2016-02-27   v0.2.1   use npm's default semver range operator
• 2016-02-25   v0.2.0   Dependencies updated
• 2013-08-20   v0.1.9   Dependencies updated
• 2013-07-29   v0.1.8   Dependencies updated
• 2013-07-21   v0.1.7   Dependencies updated and badges added
• 2013-07-15   v0.1.6   Prevent overwriting grunt.config namespace
• 2013-07-12   v0.1.5   Minor updates
• 2013-07-10   v0.1.4   Module dependencies updated
• 2013-07-08   v0.1.3   Use node-temp for temporary files
• 2013-07-05   v0.1.2   Files handling improved
• 2013-07-04   v0.1.1   Repo URL fixed
• 2013-07-04   v0.1.0   Initial version

Credits
Thanks to SinnerSchrader for support and the time to work on this project.

License
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2013 Oliver Hellebusch

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.