grunt-focus-chokidar v1.0.2
grunt-focus-chokidar
Focus and run a subset of chokidar targets
Lightly modified from grunt-focus
Getting Started
This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1
If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:
npm install grunt-focus-chokidar --save-dev
Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-focus-chokidar');
The "focus" task
Overview
In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named focus
to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig()
. Assuming the watch
config is set with the targets below, a focus
target can be created that is a subset of the watch
targets.
grunt.initConfig({
focus: {
dev: {
exclude: ['test']
},
js: {
include: ['app', 'lib']
},
css: {
include: ['css']
},
test: {}
},
chokidar: {
app: { ... },
lib: { ... },
test: { ... },
css: { ... }
}
})
Then in your registerTask
, you would use the focus:target
instead of chokidar
.
grunt.registerTask('dev', ['dev_task', 'focus:dev']);
grunt.registerTask('autotest', ['dev_task', 'test_task', 'focus:test']);
If you use an autoloading plugin, such as load-grunt-config
and jitGrunt
, you'll need to staticially map the grunt-focus-chokidar module to focus:
require('load-grunt-config')(grunt, {
...
jitGrunt: {
staticMappings: {
focus: 'grunt-focus-chokidar' // help jitGrunt find grunt-focus-chokidar
}
}
});
Options
target.include
Array of watch targets that should be included
target.exclude
Array of watch targets that should be excluded
Contributing
In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.
Release History
- 2013-07-08: 0.1.0 Initial release of grunt-focus
- 2013-07-08: 0.1.1 Added gruntplugin keyword to get into grunt plugin repo
- 2016-04-06: 1.0.0 1.0 Release
- 2017-01-18: 1.0.1 Small modifications to create grunt-focus-chokidar