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Automate with Grunt
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Automate with Grunt

by Brian P. Hogan
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced
80 pages
1h 48m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Creating a Custom Template

Let’s create a template that sets up a basic HTML5 website with a single JavaScript file and a single stylesheet. We’ll also add in a couple of additional prompts that let users decide if they’d like a Gruntfile, and if they’d like some default content added to the stylesheet. Our project will utilize the values the users provide in the JavaScript and the HTML content, too.

A template consists of a file called template.js that contains the main script executed by grunt-init, and a folder called root that contains the files that will make up the project. This root folder can have HTML files, JavaScript files, images, and pretty much anything else you think you might find useful. The following figure shows how the process ...

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