grunt-restrict

Run grunt tasks on subset of their src files.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-restrict --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-restrict');

The "restrict" task

Overview

This task is intended to be used in conjunction with other multiTasks. Lets say you're running coffee task with config similar to

// Setup your tasks as usual
grunt.initConfig({
  coffee: {
    expand: true,
    cwd: 'src',
    src: ['**/*.coffee'],
    dest: 'build',
    ext: '.js'
  },

  // (grunt-contrib-)watch task is optional
  watch: {
    coffee: {
      files: ['**/*.coffee'],
      tasks: ['restrict:coffee'],
    }
  }
})

// Use this if you use grunt-contrib-watch
require('grunt-restrict/tasks/restrict').registerHandlers(grunt);

And you want to run the coffee task only on src/foo.coffee. Then use

grunt restrict:coffee --file src/foo.coffee

Options

Currently only the --file command line option is supported. If you need to pass multiple files, use a comma, like

grunt restrict:coffee --file src/foo.coffee,src/bar.coffee

Disclaimer

This is in early stages of development, and its only verified to work with coffee grunt task. All multi tasks that support standart grunt file passing should also work, given that all source files are specified in the gruntfile for all target files.

For targets like requirejs and sass, where source files can include other source files it won't work, but I'm accepting patches.

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

• 0.2.0 Simple detection for source-only tasks, provide watch event handlers
• 0.1.1 Removed extra console.log
• 0.1.0 Initial commit