grunt-directives 
Simple grunt task to use directives in your files
Getting Started
This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1
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-directives --save-devOne the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-directives');The "directives" task
Overview
In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named directives to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().
grunt.initConfig({
directives: {
options: {
// Task-specific options go here.
},
your_target: {
// Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
},
},
})Options
separator
Type: String
Default: grunt.util.linefeed
Concatenated files will be joined on this string. If you're post-processing concatenated JavaScript files with a minifier, you may need to use a semicolon ';' as the separator.
banner
Type: String
Default: empty string
This string will be prepended to the beginning of the concatenated output. It is processed using [grunt.template.process][], using the default options.
(Default processing options are explained in the [grunt.template.process][] documentation)
footer
Type: String
Default: empty string
This string will be appended to the end of the concatenated output. It is processed using [grunt.template.process][], using the default options.
(Default processing options are explained in the [grunt.template.process][] documentation)
Usage Examples
In this example, running grunt directives:dist (or grunt directives because directives is a [multi task][]) will process the specified source files (in order), joining files with ;, process them to look for @include directives and writing the output to dist/built.js.
Suppose you have a test.js file with this content:
var included = false;
// @include file1.js
if (included) {
console.log('file1.js was included successfully!');
}Where file1.js is:
included = true;Now define the directives task in grunt:
grunt.initConfig({
directives: {
options: {
separator: ';'
},
dist: {
src: ['test.js'],
dest: 'dist/built.js'
}
}
});This can also be done with html:
Suppose you have a test.html file with this content:
<html>
...
<body>
<!-- @include content.html -->
</body>
</html>Where content.html is:
<p>Hello world!</p>And the result will be:
<html>
...
<body>
<p>Hello world!</p>
</body>
</html>Banner comments
In this example, running grunt directives:dist will first concatenate the source files, process them to look for @include directives and concatenate a newly-generated banner comment at the top, writing the output to dist/built.js.
This generated banner will be the contents of the banner template string interpolated with the config object. In this case, those properties are the values imported from the package.json file (which are available via the pkg config property) plus today's date.
Note: you don't have to use an external JSON file. It's also valid to create the pkg object inline in the config. That being said, if you already have a JSON file, you might as well reference it.
grunt.initConfig({
pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
concat: {
options: {
banner: '/*! <%= pkg.name %> - v<%= pkg.version %> - ' +
'<%= grunt.template.today("yyyy-mm-dd") %> */'
},
dist: {
src: ['src/project.js'],
dest: 'dist/built.js'
}
}
});Supported directives
- include
- more to come...
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
- 0.1.0 Initial release