ant-grunt-launcher

Ant Task to call your Grunt Task

The main goal of ant-grunt-launcher is to allow an easy integration between your Ant Build and Grunt.js

How to use

1. Download the latest jar inside release directory
2. Import the jar in your project
3. Define task in your build.xml

<path id="grunt.lib.path">
    <pathelement path="build/lib/ant-grunt-launcher-0.0.2.jar" />
</path>

<taskdef name="grunt" classname="org.jberta93.gruntlauncher.core.GruntLauncher" classpathref="grunt.lib.path"/>

4. In your target use the new task

<target name="frontend-target" description="My FE target">
  <grunt gruntfiledir="/frontend-stuff/src" grunttask="build" enviormentPath="/usr/local/bin" executenpminstall="false" executebowerinstall="false"/>
</target>

Task Attributes

Attribute	Mandatory	Type	Description
gruntfiledir	yes	string	Directory where Gruntfile.js is located in your project
grunttask	yes	string	Task name registered in Gruntfile.js
enviormentPath	no	string	Paths to add Enviroment Path to allow the script to use grunt/node executable. For instance: /usr/local/bin for OSX or C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm for Microsoft Windows
executenpminstall	no	boolean	If you want to execute npm install before grunt task
executebowerinstall	no	boolean	If you want to execute bower install before grunt task and after npm install if enabled

How to build

1. Clone the repository
2. The project has been developed using Eclipse
3. Put as Source Folder the src directory
4. Add to build path the jars contained in lib folder

Create jar

To create a valid jar to test your modify you have to launch target ant called jar.

The new jar will be created in folder deploy.

If you want to create a new release you need to change in build.xml the property project.release.version and execute target called jar-release

License

This project is released over MIT license

Author

Lorenzo Bertacchi