hum
Play with grunt.
Features
- hum could run grunt inside a specified cwd and search tasks from the given paths.
- hum instances will be executed in series to prevent grunt (which is composed of global variables and singletons) fucking up with himself.
- hum provides a programmatical way to run grunt tasks.
Installation
npm install hum --save
Usage
Actually, hum
is an alternative of Gruntfile.js and supplies a bunch of promise-style APIs.
With hum
, you could replace the code inside 'Gruntfile.js' with hum methods, and search available tasks only from your specified paths, as well as the PATH
and NODE_PATH
do.
So, it becomes possible for you to run a same tier of tasks for severial different projects.
var hum = ; // blah is defined in my-taskoptions verbose: true
Constructor: hum(options)
Creates a hum instance.
options.path
type path
The path(s) to search tasks from.
options.cwd
type path
, default to the process.cwd
.
It will be added to every target of each task configuration and will affect all configurations related to files
, src
, and dest
.
options.strict_path
type Boolean
, default to false
By default, hum will concat the NODE_PATH
to the end of the path list.
.npmTasks(moduleName)
Similar to grunt.loadNpmTasks(moduleName)
.task(taskname)
Specifies the tasks to run, if no task is specified, hum will try to run the 'default'
task.
.init(config)
Similar to grunt.initConfig(config)
.options(options)
Sets options for grunt cli.
.options({verbose: true})
is equivalent to grunt --verbose
.
.done(callback)
The promised callback.