Do a "grunt build" before generating a WAR file

[Merguez22]

All nodejs server et jetty server work fine. But i wondering how to have all files generated
by "grunt build" in the WAR when doing a "mvn package".

I see the yeoman-maven-plugin to launch yo command. May be it's possible to register a new task to generate minify, uglify, ... file and to inject it in the webapp ?

[jdubois]

You're right... That was one of my main ideas at the beginning of the project, and I totally forgot it!!! So thanks for the bug report :-)

I don't think the yeoman-maven-plugin will help a lot, but it's worth checking out.

My idea at the moment (but I haven't tried it for real!) would be to run a "grunt build" by running something like the Maven Exec plugin: http://mojo.codehaus.org/exec-maven-plugin/usage.html

[Merguez22]

This project https://github.com/trecloux/yeoman-maven-samples show an example base on "yeoman-maven-plugin". The "yeoman-maven-plugin" simply execute "npm install", "bower install" and "grunt (test/)build".

The files structure is quiet different, but simply to mimic. Extract all CSS, SASS, JS, images, ... from webapp to a root subfolder to avoid to overwrite them or duplicate them. (i'm french, sorry or the English, i know you too ;-))

[jdubois]

Yes, that's exactly what I want to do, run the bower/grunt commands from Maven, with the JHipster file structure.

I'm not sure it's a good idea to depend on yeoman-maven-plugin, as it's so simple we can just configure the maven exec plugin to do the same thing. But it's worth trying both options before deciding.

[philippd]

I did exactly that using maven exec plugin and two different scripts for unix/win. https://github.com/philippd/angular-spring-webmvc/blob/master/pom.xml

[jdubois]

If @philippd solution already works, and doesn't need a plugin, I'll go for it! The only downside is the build scripts that need to be at the root of the project, can't those commands be run straight from the exec plugin?

[jdubois]

I'll use the code from @philippd

It's going to be easy now that #32 is closed, but I'll need:

• more testing
• a good documentation to explain how you're supposed to use all this :-)