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Automate with Grunt. The Build Tool for JavaScript


Год: 2014
Автор: Brian P. Hogan
Издательство: Pragmatic Bookshelf
ISBN: 978-1-941222-11-9
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF/EPUB/MOBI
Качество: Изначально компьютерное (eBook)
Интерактивное оглавление: Да
Количество страниц: 80
Описание:

Grunt is everywhere. JavaScript projects from jQuery to Twitter Bootstrap use Grunt to convert code, run tests, and produce distributions for production. It's a build tool in the spirit of Make and Rake, but written with modern apps in mind. This book gets you up to speed with Grunt using practical hands-on examples, so you can wrangle your projects with ease. You'll learn how to create and maintain tasks and project builds, and automate your workflow with plugins and custom tasks.

JavaScript has moved from being the language you love to hate to the language you need to use. And as JavaScript applications get more complex, you need a process to manage that complexity. While online tutorials just explain how to slap together a configuration file, this book goes further and shows you how to create your own tasks, design your own project templates, combine plugins together to bring a web app to life, and build your own plugins.

You'll start by learning the basics of task creation, error handling, and logging as you create a simple configuration that executes basic JavaScript code using Node.js. Then you'll jump right into file manipulation as you read, write, copy, and delete files. You'll learn how Grunt's powerful multitasks work as you build a task to concatenate files together. Once you've got a grasp on these basics, you'll build a simple app with AngularJS and CoffeeScript, using Grunt to do all the heavy lifting and script processing. Finally, you'll create your own plugin so you can understand how plugins work.

Each chapter contains hands-on exercises and ideas for further study. Whether you rock Ruby or sling C#, Grunt will be a useful addition to your toolbox.

What You Need:

This book covers Grunt 0.4.1 and higher, and requires basic knowledge of JavaScript and command-line tools on Windows, OS X, or Linux.

Acknowledgments
Preface
The Very Basics
Installing Grunt and Configuring a Gruntfile
Our First Task
Handling Parameters
Throwing Errors
Chaining Tasks
Describing Tasks
What’s Next?
Manage Files
Creating the Project
Creating and Deleting Directories
Recursive File Copying
Using Values from Files
What’s Next?
One Task, Many Outputs
Introducing Multitasks
Multitasks and Files
What’s Next?
Build a Workflow
Creating the App
Wrangling the JavaScript
Adding Some Style
Simplifying the Build
Watching Files for Changes
Refreshing the Browser Automatically
What’s Next?
Create a Plug-in
The Structure of a Plug-in
Creating the Plug-in Skeleton
Building Our Plug-in ’s Logic
Using JSHint to Check for Errors and Problems
What’s Next?
Create Project Scaffolds
Using Existing Templates
Creating a Custom Template
Including Files Conditionally
Including File Contents Conditionally