{"id":819,"date":"2016-01-11T07:24:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T22:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/n8finch.com\/?p=819"},"modified":"2016-08-25T11:03:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T02:03:28","slug":"learning-new-things-grunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/n8finch2024.local\/learning-new-things-grunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning New Things: Grunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still getting a handle on Grunt. As far as a build tool, I&#8217;ve not yet been able to wrap my head completely around it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I need a better tutorial, or maybe I just need to not get hung up on any task runner that isn&#8217;t working right (looking at you, <strong><em>livereload<\/em><\/strong>!).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get it figured out. I usually do:-).<\/p>\n<p>Until then, I wanted to make some notes about what I&#8217;d see so far, and what I&#8217;ve done. I had some help from the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gruntjs.com\/getting-started\" target=\"_blank\">Grunt documentation<\/a><\/strong>, as well as some <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tutsplus.com\/authors\/jason-bradley\" target=\"_blank\">good tutorials<\/a><\/strong>. This isn&#8217;t a tutorial, just some notes. If you&#8217;re looking for how-tos, follow\u00a0the links&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Installing Grunt and Extras<\/h2>\n<p>So,\u00a0for anyone who&#8217;s new, you&#8217;ll want to install Grunt globally and on a per-project basis. The global install gets you the Grunt command line interface (cli) (which is <code>npm install -g grunt-cli<\/code>), and then grunt installation per project allows you to run the tasks you (or someone else!) has set up. Pretty sweet that someone can compile a whole set of tasks for you to run, and all you have to do is <code>npm install<\/code> and then run <code>grunt<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>Nice.<\/p>\n<h2>Installing Grunt Plugins<\/h2>\n<p>Like WordPress plugins, it&#8217;s easy to get a little trigger happy with plugins. They let you do extra tasks you couldn&#8217;t before and it&#8217;s just a command away.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever installing Grunt plugins to the project, you want to make sure to post fix <code>--save-dev<\/code> to the end of the install command. This will keep all of the plugins listed in the dev dependencies section of your package.json file.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some plugins I&#8217;ve installed and have been trying to get to work (with more success than not):<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: Scroll right to see more code...; notranslate\" title=\"Scroll right to see more code...\">npm install grunt-contrib-sass --save-dev \/\/installs Sass compiler\r\nnpm install grunt-contrib-watch --save-dev \/\/installs the watch which, yes, watches for changes in specified files.\r\nnpm install grunt-autoprefixer --save-dev \/\/install the autoprefixers for different browsers so you don't have to worry about prefixing in CSS \r\nnpm install grunt-reload \/\/installs the live reload, or at least is supposed to... \r\nnpm install grunt-contrib-connect --save-dev \/\/install the companion for live reload, which I can't get to work... yet! \r\nnpm install grunt-contrib-concat --save-dev \/\/install the ability to concatenate files, like javascript and CSS files, into one massive file.<\/pre>\n<p>These are just a few of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gruntjs.com\/plugins\" target=\"_blank\">thousands of plugins<\/a><\/strong> available for Grunt.<\/p>\n<h2>Configuring All the Tasks<\/h2>\n<p>This is where the waters start to get a little murky for me. That&#8217;s ok, for now. I&#8217;ve mostly been copying, pasting, editing and testing the provided scripts (see <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npmjs.com\/package\/grunt-contrib-concat#usage-examples\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a><\/strong> for an example). I basically look at how the example is using the code, try to understand it, copy it in, and customize it to work for what I&#8217;m trying to do.<\/p>\n<p>Nice way to hack at Grunt, right?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, I&#8217;m not able to do all of the tasks I&#8217;ve installed, and I&#8217;m not sure why. The two big things are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Compiling Bootstrap\u00a0Sass in CSS<\/li>\n<li>Running the livereload task<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I literally have spent two hours tweaking things with no idea why things won&#8217;t compile or live reload. They&#8217;re not huge deals. I can always just copy the most recent bootstrap.css file and enqueue it, but the point is to use Grunt (and Bower).<\/p>\n<p>And live reload isn&#8217;t\u00a0<strong><em>necessary<\/em><\/strong>, but it would just be nice.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got so far in my <code>Gruntfile.js<\/code>. It runs with no errors, but doesn&#8217;t do everything I want it to (yet!):<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: jscript; title: Scroll right to see more code...; notranslate\" title=\"Scroll right to see more code...\">module.exports = function(grunt) {\r\n\r\n    grunt.initConfig({\r\n\t\tpkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),\r\n\r\n\t\t\/**\r\n\t\t * Sass\r\n\t\t *\/\r\n\t\tsass: {\r\n\t\t  dev: {\r\n\t\t    options: {\r\n\t\t      style: 'expanded',\r\n\t\t      sourcemap: 'none',\r\n\t\t    },\r\n\t\t    files: {\r\n\t\t      'style-human-readable.css': 'sass\/style.scss',\r\n\/\/\t\t\t\t\t'bootsasscompiled.css': '**\/vendor\/boostrap-sass\/assets\/stylesheets\/_bootstrap.scss'\r\n\t\t    }\r\n\t\t  },\r\n\t\t  dist: {\r\n\t\t    options: {\r\n\t\t      style: 'compressed',\r\n\t\t      sourcemap: 'none',\r\n\t\t    },\r\n\t\t    files: {\r\n\t\t      'style.css': 'sass\/style.scss'\r\n\t\t    }\r\n\t\t  }\r\n\t\t},\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\tconcat : {\r\n\t\t      options: {\r\n\t\t        separator: '\\n\\n\/\/------------------------------------------\\n',\r\n\t\t        banner: '\\n\\n\/\/------------------------------------------\\n'\r\n\t\t      },\r\n\t\t      dist : {\r\n\t\t        src: &#x5B;'js\/*.js'],\r\n\t\t        dest: 'concatjs.js'\r\n\t\t      },\r\n\t\t\t\t\tdev: {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc: &#x5B;],\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdest: 'bootconcat.css'\r\n\t\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t    }, \/\/concat\r\n\t\t\r\n\t  \/**\r\n\t   * autoprefixer\r\n\t   *\/\t\r\n\t\tautoprefixer: {\r\n\t\t\toptions: {\r\n\t\t\t\tbrowsers: &#x5B;'last 2 versions']\r\n\t\t\t},\r\n\t\t\tmultiple_files: {\r\n\t\t\t\texpand: true,\r\n\t\t\t\tflatten: true,\r\n\t\t\t\tsrc: 'compiled\/*.css',\r\n\t\t\t\tdest: ''\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t},\r\n\r\n\t  \/**\r\n\t   * Watch\r\n\t   *\/\r\n\t\twatch: {\r\n\t    options: {\r\n\t      livereload: true,\r\n\t    },\r\n\t\t\tcss: {\r\n\t\t\t\tfiles: '**\/*.scss',\r\n\t\t\t\ttasks: &#x5B;'sass','autoprefixer']\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t},\r\n\r\n\t});\r\n\tgrunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-sass');\r\n\tgrunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-concat');\r\n\tgrunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');\r\n\tgrunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-autoprefixer');\r\n\tgrunt.registerTask('default',&#x5B;'concat', 'sass', 'watch']);\r\n}<\/pre>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited about Grunt, because it opens me up to using Sass (or LESS), compiling it all to CSS, keeping my production files to a minimum (and minified!), and allows me to use the tools\u00a0<strong><em>real developers<\/em><\/strong> use.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve just gotta fix some tasks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Peace,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nate<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still getting a handle on Grunt. 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