grunt-bowerful

This grunt plugin enables you to install + concat bower packages directly from grunt file, without needing a seperate component.json/bower.json file. Bower packages are specified directly within the grunt file itself.

By default, files are concatenated and written to the dest location according to type. For example, all .js files are concatenated to <dest>/<destfile>.js. Importantly, the order of concatenation is based on the dependency structure indicated by the bower component files. For example, if component X relies on jQuery, X will be included in the file after jQuery.

Getting Started

Install this grunt plugin next to your project's grunt.js gruntfile with: npm install grunt-bowerful

Then add this to your project's Gruntfile.js:

grunt.initConfig({
    bowerful: {
        dist: {
            /**
                @packages (required) -> object of `package name: package version`
                key/value pairs. Version can be left blank.
            */

            packages: {
                bootstrap: '~2.2.1',
                jquery: '', // when version not specified, most recent will be
                            // used
                handlebars: {
                    // use the 'select' field to indicate the particular files
                    // to be used. Otherwise, all files specified in the `main`
                    // field of the package's `component.json` (or, failing
                    // that, `package.json`) file will be used. This may be
                    either a `String` or `Array`

                    select: [ 'handlebars.js' ],

                    // additionally, use the `exclude` field to indicate files
                    // you *do not* wish to include in the concatenated
                    // version. This may be either a `String` or `Array`

                    exclude: [ 'handlebars.runtime.js' ],
                    version: '~1.0.0-rc.3'
                },

                ember: '~1.0.0-pre.2'
            },

            /**
                store (optional) -> path where components are installed. defaults
                to 'components'
            */

            store: 'components',

            /**
                dest (optional) -> directory where files will be merged. Merged
                files take the form:

                    assets[.extension] = { merged files of extension type }

                e.g. all JS from bower packages will end up in assets.js; all css in assets.css

                Files are merged according to dependency rules, such that a file is
                concatenated after files upon which it depends.
            */

            dest: 'public',

            /**
                destfile (optional) -> filename that will be used when files are merged. Merged
                files will default to 'assets' 
            */

            destfile: 'assets',

            /**
                customtarget (optional) -> file targets can be manually specified. 

                string - fullpath string without any extenstion, this will be added automaticly.

                key/value pairs. - fullpath string with extensions, extensions can be overwritten. 
                eg: Changing ext to something else, example '.less' or '.scss' 
            */

            customtarget: { 
                // this will generate jquery.js and jquery.css files if they exist on package
                jquery: 'web/js/vendor/jquery', 
                // note that you can overwrite the filename and extension to anything else.
                otherlib: {
                    js: 'path/to/destination.js',
                    css: 'path/to/destination.scss'
                }
            }
        }
    }

And import tasks via:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-bowerful');

Contributers

• @mitermayer
• @johannestroeger

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Karl Gyllstrom
Licensed under the MIT license.