November 2014
Beginner
336 pages
10h 58m
English
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Use Grunt Plug-ins
Without plug-ins, Grunt doesn’t do anything. You need plug-ins to automate all your build tasks. We will be using grunt-contrib-concat, grunt-contrib-copy, and grunt-contrib-jshint (Grunt plug-ins with the grunt-contrib prefix are written and maintained by the same people who write and maintain Grunt), which we already added to our package.json and installed using npm install. Now we need to load them into Grunt and configure them (see Listing 4.4).
Listing 4.4 Complete Gruntfile.js for kittenbook
module.exports = function(grunt) { grunt.initConfig({ concat: { release: { src: ['js/values.js', 'js/prompt.js'], dest: 'release/main.js' } }, copy: ...
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