grunt-typescript-notify

Growl notifications for grunt-typescript

Send Growl notifications when grunt-typescript completes a build.

Lets you know if things are good ✅ or bad ❌ without having to check your console (especially useful with grunt-typescript's watch option).

See grunt-notify for the list of supported Growl-like notification apps supported.

Installing

$ npm install grunt-typescript-notify --save-dev

NOTE: grunt-typescript-notify currently needs a pre-release version of grunt-typescript to work properly:

// package.json
{
	"dependencies": {
		"grunt-typescript": "git://github.com/Coridyn/grunt-typescript#feat/grunt-raise-success-event"
		// ...
	}
}

Once installed, enable it in your Gruntfile.js:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-typescript-notify');

Options

These are the default options for the notifications, you can override them in your Gruntfile.js.

grunt-typescript-notify is configured as a Grunt multitask so you can customise the images/message on a per-task basis.

grunt.initConfig({

	'typescript-notify': {
		options: {
			success: {
				title: 'SUCCESS - TypeScript compile',
				message: '<best-guess at project name from package.json>',
				image: '<full path to success image>'
			},
			failed: {
				title: 'FAILED - TypeScript compile',
				message: '<best-guess at project name from package.json>',
				image: '<full path to failed image>'
			}
		},
		build: {
			options: {
				// Custom options for this task - e.g. different images.
				// Same properties as above.
			}
		},
		specs: {
			options: {
				// Custom options for this task - e.g. different images.
				// Same properties as above.
			}	
		}
		//...
	}
	
});

Usage

To use grunt-typescript-notify simply invoke the task before your usual grunt-typescript task.

Here is are two example tasks that add different notifications for TypeScript source and spec builds:

grunt.registerTask('ts-build', [
	'typescript-notify:build',
	'typescript:build'
]);

grunt.registerTask('ts-specs', [
	'typescript-notify:specs',
	'typescript:specs'
]);

Then run your aggregate task to receive notifications for that build:

$ grunt ts-build

$ grunt ts-specs

TypeScript watch

You can use grunt-concurrent to run multiple watchers simultaneously. This is really useful with grunt-typescript's watch behaviour (which speeds up builds considerably).

This lets you run multiple tasks simultaneously.

grunt.registerTask('ts-build-watch', function(){
	// Customise the options for this run.
	grunt.config.set('typesript.build.options.watch', true);
	grunt.task.run('ts-build');
});

grunt.registerTask('ts-specs-watch', function(){
	// Customise the options for this run.
	grunt.config.set('typesript.specs.options.watch', true);
	grunt.task.run('ts-specs');
});

grunt.registerTask('ts-watch-all', [
	'ts-build-watch',
	'ts-specs-watch'
]);

Images

Success/failed/error images borrowed from: https://github.com/karma-runner/karma-growl-reporter

"Thumb" icon from: http://www.flaticon.com/