grunt-includes
Requires grunt ~0.4.0
A grunt task for including a file within another file (think php includes). Circular imports will break the recursive strategy. All includes retain parent and child indentation
Getting Started
Install this grunt plugin next to your project's Gruntfile.js with: npm install grunt-includes --save-dev
Then add this line to your project's Gruntfile.js
:
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-includes');
An example site can be found at grunt-includes-example.
Options
flatten
Type: String
Default: false
Flatten all file sources to the destination directory. For example source/file/path.html
will be shortened to path.html
.
banner
Type: String
Default: ''
String processed by grunt.template.process
, and prepended to every compiled file.
duplicates
Type: Boolean
Default: true
Permits the same file to be included twice.
debug
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Enables debug mode compilation.
silent
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Silences file save success messages.
includePath
Type: String
Default: ``
Indicates the path to use when looking for included files. Instead of using relative path in the include statements, use includePath as base directory.
filenamePrefix
Type: String
Default: ``
Prepend the defined string to each included filename before reading them. Thus making possible to include "include_file.ext" by using directly "file.ext".
filenameSuffix
Type: String
Default: ``
Append the defined string to each included filename before reading them. Thus making possible to include "file.ext" by using directly "file".
templateFileRegexp
Type: RegExp
Default: /\{\{\s?file\s?\}\}/
Regular expression for matching and replacing template text. Example: Start of template | {{file}} | End of template
.
template
Type: String
Template to be rendered into, {{fileName}}
and {{file}}
will be replaced with the filename and file contents respectively.
includeRegexp
Type: RegExp
Default: /^(\s*)include\s+"(\S+)"\s*$/
Matches: include "some/file.html"
Sets the regular expression used to find include statements.
A regex group is used to identify the important parts of the include statement. When constructing your own regex, it can contain up to two groups (denoted by parentheses ()
in the regular expression):
- The indentation whitespace to be appended to the front of the included file's contents
- The file location
All regular expressions used must contain at least one group. If only one group is used, it will be assumed to contain the file path.
Usage
You can use this plugin to build html templates.
includes: {
files: {
src: ['path/to/foo.html', 'path/to/bar.html'],
dest: 'tmp',
flatten: true,
cwd: '.',
options: {
silent: true,
banner: '<!-- I am a banner <% includes.files.dest %> -->'
}
}
}
Or even organize your static files.
includes: {
js: {
options: {
includeRegexp: /^\/\/\s*import\s+['"]?([^'"]+)['"]?\s*$/,
duplicates: false,
debug: true
},
files: [{
cwd: 'assets/js/',
src: '**/*.js',
dest: 'assets/dist/js/',
}],
},
},
watch: {
js: {
files: ['assets/js/**/*.js'],
tasks: ['includes:js', 'jshint']
},
},
Troubleshooting
- Grunt is copying the wrong files to the wrong locations. If you're using
includes
as a multitask and are specifying a files
object with src
, dest
, and cwd
, you must supply it in an array using the files array format. If you shorthand it by setting files: {src: ... }
, Grunt will misinterpret it into the files object format and mysteriously copy artifacts into (potentially new) src
, dest
, and cwd
directories. This appears to affect only multitask usage.
Example
index.html
<html>
<head>
<title>Show me</title>
</head>
<body>
include "content.html"
</body>
</html>
content.html
<div class="content">
<h1>Content</h1>
<p>More content</p>
</div>
Produces
<html>
<head>
<title>Show me</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="content">
<h1>Content</h1>
<p>More content</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Release History
- 0.5.0 - Given a full include path, filenamePrefix and filenameSuffix will now be ignored.
- 0.4.0 - Release templating ability. Thanks nathankot!
- 0.3.7 - Various bug fixes and updates.
- 0.3.6 - Update replacement so only the include statement is replace. Thanks SAPikachu!
- 0.3.5 - Add options for filename prefix and suffix.
- 0.3.4 - Add explicit include path option.
- 0.3.2 - Add silent flag to silence save messages.
- 0.3.0 - Add indention preservation and banner support
- 0.2.3 - Fix bug when building source files from a different platform. Thanks wGEric!
- 0.2.0 - Support for expandable paths and debugging. Thanks @ktmud!
- 0.1.0 - Updated for grunt 0.4
- 0.0.1 - Initial release
License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2012-2015 Matt McFarland and Contributors
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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