grunt

https://github.com/gempesaw/grunt.el.git

git clone 'git://github.com/gempesaw/grunt.el.git'
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grunt.el

Grunt is a renowned JavaScript task runner. This package provides a way to invoke grunt tasks without needing a separate shell or buffer management per task or project.

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installation

Use MELPA: M-x package-install <RET> grunt <RET>. Or, get grunt.el in your load-path and do a (require 'grunt).

usage

Figure out what keybinding you'd like to bind grunt-exec to, or just invoke it via M-x while your current buffer is in a repo with a Gruntfile somewhere.

;; currently experimenting with "C-M-g"
(global-set-key (kbd "C-M-g") 'grunt-exec)

It'll try to find your Gruntfile and suggest tasks to run if it can find them. Although grunt.el only knows how to find registered tasks, you can also enter in any valid Grunt task at the prompt.

It'll traverse upwards from your current working directory in search of a Gruntfile, or bail out if it can't find one.

If you have a long running task like serve or watch, you can re-run it from grunt-exec and we'll automatically kill your existing process buffer before starting a new process. This is not the same behavior as in previous versions; see C-h v grunt-kill-existing-buffer for more information. For the old behavior,

(setq grunt-kill-existing-buffer nil)

development

There's clearly tons of room for improvement - in particular, it'd be great to dip into the AST from js2-mode and parse out all of the valid tasks instead of hackily doing a (string-match) for registerTask.

To run tests, use Cask:

$ cask install
$ cask exec ert-runner