Building a custom jQuery

In this task we'll build a custom version of jQuery, which will not consist of all of the different modules that make up the "full" version of jQuery combined into the single file which we would normally download from the jQuery site, just like the files we built at the end of the last task, instead it will contain only the core modules.

Engage Thrusters

Now we can build a custom version of jQuery. To build a barebones version of jQuery, omitting all of the non-core components, we can enter the following command into the CLI:

grunt custom:-ajax,-css,-deprecated,-dimensions,-effects,-offset

Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing

Once we have the source and have configured our local environment, we are able to build a custom version of jQuery containing only the core components and omitting all of the optional components.

In this case we've excluded all of the optional components, but we could exclude any one of them, or any combination of them to produce a script file that...