Frontend maven plugin

This plugin downloads/installs Node and NPM locally for your project, runs NPM install, Grunt and/or Karma. It's supposed to work on Windows, OS X and Linux.

What is this plugin meant to do?

• Let you keep your frontend and backend builds as separate as possible, by reducing the amount of interaction between them to the bare minimum; using only 1 plugin.
• Let you use Node.js and its libraries in your build process without installing Node/NPM globally for your build system
• Let you ensure that the version of Node and NPM being run is the same in every build environment

What is this plugin not meant to do?

• Not meant to replace the developer version of Node - frontend developers will still install Node on their laptops, but backend developers can run a clean build without even installing Node on their computer.
• Not meant to install Node for production uses. The Node usage is intended as part of a frontend build, running common javascript tasks such as minification, obfuscation, compression, packaging, testing etc.

Show me an example!

Here is an example for you!

Installing

Include the plugin as a dependency in your Maven project.

  <plugin>
    <groupId>com.github.eirslett</groupId>
    <artifactId>frontend-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.6</version>
  </plugin>

How to use the plugin?

Have a look at the example project, to see how it should be set up! If you want to know how to configure the plugin, have a look at the example pom.xml: https://github.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin/blob/frontend-maven-plugin-0.0.6/src/it/example/pom.xml

To build this project:

mvn clean install

Issues, Contributing

Please post any issues on the Github's Issue tracker. Pull requests are welcome!

License

Apache 2.0