The watch task should use the same logic as js-modularize.js and compass/sass to find the relevant file paths to watch.
Tests :whale2:
Maybe split a few things into their own modules (such as js-modularizer).
Toggle ember-testing container
Multiple server ports
Make the images task into a copy task, that can be configured for multiple targets. E.g. "images" and "fonts"
Make svg optional

Installation

Billy-builder depends on grunt-cli and bower to be installed globally first. Easy way: npm install -g grunt-cli bower.

Add billy-builder as an npm dev-dependency:

npm install billy-builder --save-dev

Add a Gruntfile.js to your project root where you load the tasks from billy-builder:

module.exports = function(grunt) {
    grunt.initConfig({
        //Your normal grunt config
    });
    
    grunt.loadNpmTasks('billy-builder');
};

Configuration

Declare dependencies using `bower.json`

Add a bower.json and declare your dependencies as described here in the Bower documentation.

You can then run bower install, which will install the dependencies in the bower_components directory.

Customizing billy-builder

In your Gruntfile.js you can add a key called billy-builder to customize the behavior of billy-builder. Example:

module.exports = function(grunt) {
    grunt.initConfig({
        'billy-builder': {
          title: 'Billy\'s Billing',
          compass: true,
          jsConfig: {
            ENV: {
              apiUrl: 'https://api.billysbilling.com/v2'
            }
          }
        }
    });
    
    grunt.loadNpmTasks('billy-builder');
};

The following options are supported:

title

Type: String
Default: 'Unnamed billy-builder app'

What the <title> element's content will be in your index.html.

favicon

Type: String
Default: '/releases/:release_name/images/favicon.ico' (if the file exists, null otherwise)

Will add a favicon to your index.html.

jsConfig

Type: Object
Default: {}

Each key in this object will be added to the index.html and tests.html in a script tag. Example:

jsConfig: {
  ENV: {
    apiUrl: 'https://api.example.com/'
  },
  MyConfig: {
    cool: true
  }
}

Adds a <script> tag to the html files in the <head>:

...
<head>
  ...
  <script>
  var ENV = {"apiUrl": "https://api.example.com/"};
  var MyConfig = {"cool": true};
  </script>
  ...
</head>
...

This is useful for injecting app specific variables into the html page.

indexJsConfig

Type: Object
Default: {}

Same as jsConfig, but only applies to index.html.

testsJsConfig

Type: Object
Default: {ENV: {isTest: true}}

Same as jsConfig, but only applies to tests.html.

With the default setting you can check ENV.isTest to see if the page is in test mode or not.

version

Type: String
Default: 'default'

Determines which directory the compiled resources are saved to. A value of 2013-10-12T13:45:21 will put all the js and css files under releases/2013-10-12T13:45:21 in the dist folder.

This is useful when building production builds to avoid caching issues, and to ensure that half a new version is not served (in case a user requests the page while only the new css file has been upload for instance). Just make sure to upload index.html last, i.e. after all js, css and images have been uploaded.

extraDependencyDirs

Type: Array
Default: []

Tells billy-builder which directories to look for Bower components in.

Usage example: Say you have a bunch of to-become-bower-components that you haven't moved out of your main repo yet. Then you can place them all in a directory e.g. named new_components and version control them, and set extraDependencyDirs to ['new_components']. Eventually you should split them into their own repos though.

sass

Type: Object
Default: null

When set to an object with a key named sassFile, that file will be compiled using node-sass and saved to dist/releases/:release_name/css/bundle.css.

Example:

grunt.initConfig({
  'billy-builder': {
    sass: {
      sassFile: 'srcs/scss/bundle.scss'
    }
  }
});

Default (null) means no SASS compiling.

Unless you have dependencies on mixins or functions from Compass, this is the preferred way. Node SASS is much faster at compiling than Compass.

compass

Type: Object
Default: null

When set to an object with a key named sassDir, that directory will be compiled using Compass and saved to dist/releases/:release_name/css.

Example:

grunt.initConfig({
  'billy-builder': {
    compass: {
      sassDor: 'srcs/scss'
    }
  }
});

Your sassDir must contain a file named bundle.scss. This is so that the index.html file can include the correct css file. All other files under this directory should be includes (i.e. be prefixed with _).

Default (null) means no Compass compiling.

Enabling this option requires you to have compass installed locally and accessible as compass in your PATH.

Grunt tasks

grunt build

This task does the following:

grunt watch

grunt server

grunt test

Running tasks for production

You can run any task in production mode by prepending NODE_ENV=production. Example:

NODE_ENV=production grunt build

Will make a production-ready build. The differences are:

JavaScript is minified using uglify-js
When including bower dependencies in bundle.js a minified version will be preferred. If the main file of a dependency is ember.js, then billy-builder will look for a file named ember.min.js to use instead if it exists.
CSS is also compiled in a minified way.

Running tests in a browser

You can run the tests in a browser by running grunt server and go to http://localhost:4499/tests.html.

Running tests on Travis

This is a good starting point for your .travis.yml:

before_script:
  - gem install compass --no-rdoc --no-ri
  - npm install
  - npm install -g grunt-cli
  - npm install -g bower
  - bower install

script: grunt test

You can take out the gem install compass line if you're not using Compass.

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