Make ability to have grunt build release and dev instances of project

[aaronr]

There is no current way (other than modifying a tracked index.html file) to change to use non-minified versions of the code. Also the index.html file is not placed in the dist dir like it should. I understand that there where reasons to do this... but there must be a better way:

1. Have index.html end up in dist like the rest of the project when built.

2. Change the gh-pages stuff to just publish the contents of dist.

• This gets rid of all the extra stuff that is being published that should not be (config files etc)
• Everything is at the right level then (i.e. index.html is no longer treated special)

3. Make index.html based on a template in the root folder, but use a grunt html processor to build out the real index.html based on build type. Some possible grunt tools already exist:

• https://github.com/spatools/grunt-html-build
• https://github.com/dciccale/grunt-processhtml

4. Make grunt serve and the connect stuff for grunt serve from the dist dir.

In the end you would be able to specify build type... each would pre-process the index.html to the proper form, populate the dist dir, and if updating master push a release version of the dist dir to gh-pages.

I plan to work on prototyping this (as a learning exercise for myself) in the aaronr_gruntwork branch

[alukach]

+1 to being able to develop off of L.DNC.js and serve off of L.DNC.min.js, the uglified file definitely takes some fun out of the dev process.

My $0.02: I think what would make this the easiest/most-natural-to-develop-on would be to have the dev folder hierarchy match what we want the prod folder to be (starting with moving index.html to src/index.html). Basically, any assets that would make their way into dist/ should go into src/. Is this kind of along the lines of what you were thinking?

2. Change the gh-pages stuff to just publish the contents of dist.

In the event that you haven't already looked into it, this is super trivial (assuming #44 is merged), you would only need to change the base arg to point to dist/.

[mapsam]

👍 to all of this. Take it away @aaronr!

[alukach]

Fixed in #48