grunt-wizard

A wizard to select the desired task and options

Getting Started

This plugin requires 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-wizard --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-wizard');

The "wizard" task

Overview

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

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

Options

options.message

Type: String Default value: 'Choose a task to run'

options.choices

Type: Object|Function

A list of tasks and parameters

Usage Examples

If you just want to see this plugin in action clone the repository and launch grunt:

git clone https://github.com/jantimon/grunt-wizard
grunt

Default Options

In this example, the prompt will ask to choose between nodeunit and jshint:

grunt.initConfig({
  wizard: {
    default: {
      options: {
        message: 'Choose a task to run',
        choices: {
          'nodeunit': 'Test the plugin',
          'jshint': 'Check for common js errors'
        }
      }
    }
  },
})

Choices function

In this example the result will be the same as in default options however the choices are build up in a function

grunt.initConfig({
  wizard: {
    default: {
      options: {
        message: 'Choose a task to run',
        choices: function(){
          return {
            'nodeunit': 'Test the plugin',
            'jshint': 'Check for common js errors'
          };
      }
    }
  },
})

Sub parameters

It is also possible to set custom parameter values

grunt.initConfig({
  wizard: {
    default: {
      options: {
        message: 'Choose a task to run',
        choices: function(){
          return {
            'nodeunit': {
              label: 'Test the plugin',
              parameter: [{
                name: '--customParameter',
                message: 'Choose a value for --customParameter',
                choices: {
                  'blue': 'Run all tests in blue',
                  'red': 'Run all tests in red'
                }
              },
              {
                name: '--anotherCustomParameter',
                message: 'Choose a value for --anotherCustomParameter',
                choices: ['yellow', 'black']
              }]
            }
          },
          'jshint': 'Check for common js errors'
        };
      }
    }
  },
})

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

(Nothing yet)

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Jan Nicklas. Licensed under the MIT license.