Grunt-upcoming NPM

grunt-upcoming

Write upcoming release info to a JSON file

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

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-upcoming --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-upcoming');

The "upcoming" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named upcoming to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

upcoming: {
  default: {
    files: [
      { src: 'package.json', dest: [ 'version%s-info.json','product%s-info.json' ] }
    ]
  },
  patch: {
    files: [ 
      { src: 'package.json', dest: ['patch-info.json'] }
    ]
  }
},

Configuration Options

default.files

Run the following from the command line:

$ grunt upcoming

For the example above, that command will generate two files:

version-info.json
product-info.json

The contents will simply be:

{
	"name":"(package-name)",
	"version":"(version)"
}

The package-name and version will be what is currently in package.json (the src in the default config).

For example:

{
	"name":"grunt-upcoming",
	"version":"0.1.0"
}

Now run this:

$ grunt upcoming:major

That will generate:

version-major-info.json
product-major-info.json

Because there was no config defined for major, the default was run by applying the major release argument. The files listed in the default section contain '%s'. That was replaced in the filename with '-major'.

The output will look something like this:

{
	"name":"(package-name)",
	"version":"(version)",
	"upcoming": {
		"release":"major",
		"version":"(next-major-version)"
	}
}

For example:

{
	"name":"grunt-upcoming",
	"version":"0.1.0",
	"upcoming": {
		"release":"major",
		"version":"1.0.0"
	}
}

(release).files

Valid releases are: major, minor, patch, premajor, preminor, prepatch, or prerelease.

If no section is defined in the config for a release, the default will be used. To define a section for a release, create one named after the release (patch, minor, major, etc.).

The example contains a configuration for patch.

    upcoming: {
      default: { ... },
      patch: {
        files: [ 
          { src: 'package.json', dest: ['patch-info.json'] }
        ]
      }
    },

Run this at the command line:

$ grunt upcoming:patch

This will result in the patch-info.json file being created.

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.