grunt-version-compile

Browserify centric plugin that allows multiple builds, rename files with known extensions in order to provide alternative versions of apps and components

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-version-compile --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-version-compile');

The "compileVersion" task

Overview

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

grunt.initConfig({
  compileVersion: {
    versions: [''],
    root: '',
    task: ''
  },
});

Options

options.versions

Type: Array of strings

An array of version names to use. These must match the filenames you want to scan for. So 'alt' will search for .alt.js or .alt.css files

options.root

Type: String Default value: '.'

So you can reduce the amount of scanning you do and restrict the search to a specific directory

options.task

Type: String

What task to run for each language. The language will be appended to the task, so if your task is build and your versions contains alt the task build:alt will be run, as well as just 'build'.

Usage Examples

This will:

1. Run the build task
2. Rename all .alt.js files found recursively in the lib directory to .js, renaming the existing file to -old.js
3. Run the build:alt task. This allows you to have multiple outputs
4. Rename all -old.js files back to their original name, and rename the .js files back to .alt.js

grunt.initConfig({
  compileVersion: {
      versions: ['alt'],
      root: 'lib',
      task: 'build'
    },
});

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 0.1.1 Added support for Grunt v1 0.1.2 Updated repo location 0.1.3 Updated NPM badge path