grunt-bower-event

grunt-bower

Grunt plugin for Bower, a package manager for the web.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install dherges/grunt-bower --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-bower');

The "bower" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named bower to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

What command is being executed is either given through the target name or explicitly through the command option.

grunt.initConfig({
  bower: {
    install: {
      options: {
        // Target-specific options for 'bower install' go here.
      },
      args: [
        // Target-specific arguments for 'bower install' go here.
      ]
    },
    your_second_target: {
      command: 'list',
      options: {}, // Target-specific options for 'bower list' go here.
      args: [] // Target-specific arguments for 'bower list' go here.
    }
  }
})

Options

command

Type: String Default value: ''

If set, comand gives the bower command that is executed. For now, install and list are known to be useful commands for this plugin, though all commands of Bower's programmatic API are available.

options

Type: Object Default value: {}

Options for the bower command being executed; see http://bower.io for a list of available options.

arguments

Type: Array Default value: []

Arguments for the bower command being executed; see http://bower.io for a list of available arguments.

Usage Examples

Install

In this example, we run a simple bower install.

grunt.initConfig({
  bower: {
    install: {
    }
  }
})

List pathes

In this example, we run bower list --paths.

grunt.initConfig({
  bower: {
    consumePaths: {
      command: 'list',
      options: {
        paths: true
      }
    }
  }
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

• 2013-07-11 v0.1.0 First version.