A simple grunt setup to use on Udacity projects. The idea is that you can use this repo as a starting point for each of your projects where you want to use grunt.
- verify node is installed, can do
node -vto check version, if doesn't error we are good. - update npm to latest version
npm update -g npm - create a directory for you project and cd into it.
- once in your directory install grunt-cli
npm install -g grunt-cli
if all went well above the we are ready to use Grunt.
- from your project root directory clone project
git clone git@github.com:javsalazar/grunt-boilerplate.git . - add directory app/, dist/, and images_src/ at the root of your project.
remember that if you cloned this directory there is already a git repo at the root of the project, if you clone the project repo like so: git clone git@github.com:udacity/frontend-nanodegree-resume.git app remember to delete the .git folder in app so it won't be a repo within a repo, that would be a problem. If you are familiar with submodules by all means us it.
since we have the packages.json file we don't have to manually install each plugin like so: npm install grunt-responsive-images --save-dev. Instead do npm install on the root directory of project to install all plugins at once.
** Ready For Gruntfile.js
Now that the project and directories structure is set take a look at Grunfile.js and make any necessary changes to the settings or options of each task.