Grunt: Config Directory

Split a grunt configuration into multiple 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-config-dir --save-dev

Overview

Somewhere in your project's Gruntfile, initialize grunt-config-dir like this:

require('grunt-config-dir')(grunt, {
    configDir: require('path').resolve('grunt'),
    fileExtensions: ['js', 'coffee']
}, function(err){ grunt.log.error(err) });

Then create your configDir and move as many properties as you wish from grunt.config into files beneath it. Filenames with truncated extensions are used as the property keys. Your property files should export a function expecting the grunt object as a parameter, which returns the property value.

Options

options.configDir

Type: String Default value: path.resolve('grunt')

A directory relative to the Gruntfile to contain your grunt.config property files.

options.fileExtensions

Type: Array Default value: ['js', 'coffee']

Valid file extensions to import properties from within configDir.

Usage Example

Gruntfile.js

require('grunt-config-dir')(grunt);

grunt.initConfig({
  // copy config has been moved to `grunt/copy.js`
  /*
  copy: {
    main: {
      files: [
        { expand: true, src: ['path/*'], dest: 'dest/', filter: 'isFile' }
      ]
    }
  }
  */
});

// grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-copy');

grunt/copy.js

module.exports = function(grunt) {

  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-copy');

  return {
    main: {
      files: [
        { expand: true, src: ['path/*'], dest: 'dest/', filter: 'isFile' }
      ]
    }
  };

};

Comparison with alternatives

Before choosing grunt-config-dir, you may want to explore other libraries with the same goal.

Feature	grunt-config-dir	load-grunt-config
Configurable tasks directory	✔️	✔️
Default tasks directory	grunt/	grunt/
CoffeeScript	✔️	✔️
Tests	✔️	✔️
Dogfooding	✔️	✔️
Compatibility with grunt-environment	✔️	❓
Support for returning a function	❌	✔️
Aliases file	❌	✔️
YAML support	❌	✔️

Contributing

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Fetch a local clone
3. Install the dependencies: $ npm install
4. Run the test suite: $ grunt
5. Make your changes, and then open a pull request

Thanks!

Release History

0.3.1

• Converts source to CoffeeScript
• Uses grunt/ directory in own source to provide usage example and test target
• Adds nodeunit tests
• Adds linting to test chain
• Enforces dependency on fs-walk

0.3.0

• Cleaner verbose logging
• Fixed an issue with joining multiple file extensions
• More comprehensive return object

0.2.0

• Fixes entry point
• Deprecates verbose option in favor of grunt.verbose

0.1.0

• First release