Grunt Collections

[tkellen]

per request, here is my comment from cowboy/grunt#377 in a separate issue.

Grunt collections is a concept whereby an npm package can be created with nothing but a list of gruntplugin dependencies. When loadNpmTask is called on this type of package (the heuristic is a package with the keywords gruntplugin and gruntcollection), it will automatically invoke loadNpmTasks for each dependency from within that package.

Here is a mocked directory structure for grunt collections:
https://github.com/tkellen/grunt-collection

The primary driver behind this is allowing grunt-contrib to be broken into separate tasks, but still be installable as a whole. Also, it lets end-users easily create their own set of common-use plugins from various sources.

The package "grunt-collection" is available on npm for testing.