grunt-bushcaster

cachebuster with a function to update references in the sources (useful for requirejs dependencies)

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-bushcaster --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-bushcaster');

The "bushcaster" task

Overview

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

grunt.initConfig({
  bushcaster: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
})

Options

options.hashLength

Type: Number Default value: 8

Length of the hash to be added.

options.removeSource

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Should we removed the source files?

options.requirejs

Type: Boolean Default value: true

Are we processing requirejs modules? Some internal processing relies on this variable.

options.refPathTransform

Type: Function Default value: null

Function to transform the updated reference (in case you need to change path? url?)

options.noProcess

Type: String|Boolean Default value: false

Globbing pattern for files that sould not be processed with updated references. Useful for libs, like jquery, or so - might speed up the whole process a bit.

options.onComplete

Type: Function Default value: null

Function to handle the hash map, so you can write the output to json or sth ;-)

Usage Examples

grunt.initConfig({
  'bushcaster' : {
    test : {
      files : [
        {
          expand : true,
          cwd    : 'test/dist/',
          src    : [ '**/*.js' ],
          dest   : 'test/build/'
        }
      ],
 
      options : {
 
        // length of the hash to be added
        hashLength : 8,
 
        // should we removed the source files?
        removeSource : true,
 
        // globbing pattern for files that should not be processed with updated references
        // useful for libs, like jquery, or so - might speed up the whole process a bit
        noProcess : 'test/dist/vendor/**/*.js',
 
        // this is handy, if your module references' path differ from the current CWD structure
        // in  this example, we add 1 level of depth - the 'root/' folder
        refPathTransform : function ( ref ) {
           return 'root/' + ref;
        },
 
        // function to handle the hash map
        // so you can write the output to json or sth ;-)
        // in this case, we write json AND php output of our map :-)
        onComplete  : function ( map, files ) {
          var arr = [];
 
          files.forEach( function ( file ) {
            arr.push( '\'' + file + '\'=>\'' + map[ file ] + '\'' );
          });
 
          var out = '<?php\n\n$files = [\n\t' + arr.join( ',\n\t' ) + '\n];\n';
 
          grunt.file.write( 'test/dist/map.php', out );
          grunt.file.write( 'test/dist/map.json', JSON.stringify( map ) );
        }
      }
    }
  }
})

todos

• support reading the config from requirejs config
• more sophisticated testing
• lots'more afaik...

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

• 0.1.0 2014-11-12 long awaited PR from @rodikal (&co.) fixing the tricky hashing inception :-)
• 0.0.7 2013-11-22 fixed error with map / files objects not being purged for more than one task
• 0.0.6 2013-11-06 tweaked the way the requirejs references processing work ...oh, and docs
• 0.0.5 2013-10-30 erm... docs fix
• 0.0.4 2013-10-30 further cleaning, fixed keywords, improved docs, added a proper license
• 0.0.3 2013-10-28 added first batch of tests, cleaned up
• 0.0.2 2013-10-28 added support for dest option
• 0.0.1 2013-10-28 ported requirejs-cachebuster task and renamed to bushcaster