Grunt Performing Actions on a Static Directory of Files

Question

I've been working to integrate grunt for the work I'm doing on my personal site. However - it seems like it isn't designed to work well for my current implementation. In short, I am using a static site generator (Wintersmith). My desire is to have grunt to perform a series of actions (minify css, uglify for js, format HTML and remove empty lines) on this directory that was generated by the site generator.

In short here are my issues:

Grunt plugins seem to always have a different source and destination for files. In my case, I just want it to take a file (for example, a CSS file) and have it be minified in the same file.
Grunt doesn't seem to handle situations where you want to perform an action on a series of files where each action would have a different output. For example, if I want it to perform an action to format the generated HTML on all HTML files in a directory (without naming them each specifically) - then I can't.

I would like to use grunt in this case, but it seems like I'd just be better off writing a shell script for this task.

esvendsen · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-13 14:18:14Z

Just specify the same path in src and dest.
Yes you can. See Building the files object dynamically

Example copied from the docs:

grunt.initConfig({ minify: { dynamic_mappings: { // Grunt will search for "**/*.js" under "lib/" when the "minify" task // runs and build the appropriate src-dest file mappings then, so you // don't need to update the Gruntfile when files are added or removed. files: [ { expand: true, // Enable dynamic expansion. cwd: 'lib/' // Src matches are relative to this path. src: ['**/*.js'], // Actual pattern(s) to match. dest: 'build/', // Destination path prefix. ext: '.min.js', // Dest filepaths will have this extension. }, ], }, }, });

This pertains to Grunt 0.4

This is certainly getting me a lot closer. Question - If you have files (like all HTML files that are in a subdirectory which also has multiple directories in it) - can you specify that they are output in the same folder structure that it found them in? So if I want to run a format HTML task - and I have 3 files - index.html some_dir/index.html and some_other_dir/file.html . Is there a way I can build those dynamically and have them output in the correct folder? I'm not seeing that in the docs.
That's exactly what the above config does. The two stars is a globbing pattern for recursively looking in all subfolders.

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Grunt Performing Actions on a Static Directory of Files

1 Answer 1

2 Comments

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

1 Answer 1

2 Comments

Related