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Learning Grunt

You're reading from   Learning Grunt Monitor and automate complex JavaScript tasks and processes by obtaining a practical understanding of Grunt

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888809
Length 184 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Douglas Reynolds Douglas Reynolds
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Understanding task loading

The process and syntax for loading a task are quite simple and very straightforward. In fact, the basic way to load a task is a simple one-liner using Grunt's loadNpmTasks method.

The syntax is:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('name-of-task');

The name-of-task, as shown in the example, would be the name of the task as defined in sample_project's package.json devDependencies object. So, for instance, to load grunt-contrib-uglify we would specify it as the argument in the loadNpmTasks method like this:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-uglify');

Using the LoadNpmTasks method

A little about loadNpmTasks. The loadNpmTasks method is a method that loads plugins installed locally with NPM (it will not load tasks installed via other means) and that have been installed relative to the gruntfile. In order to load tasks not installed with NPM, one would use grunt.loadTasks, an alias for grunt.task.loadTasks. Additionally, for tasks that have been installed with...

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