grunt-dep-concat

Concatenate files in order based on dependencies.

Getting Started

If you haven't used grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide.

From the same directory as your project's Gruntfile and package.json, install this plugin with the following command:

npm install grunt-dep-concat --save-dev

Once that's done, add this line to your project's Gruntfile:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-dep-concat');

If the plugin has been installed correctly, running grunt --help at the command line should list the newly-installed plugin's task or tasks. In addition, the plugin should be listed in package.json as a devDependency, which ensures that it will be installed whenever the npm install command is run.

The “dep-concat” task

This plugin requires tsort.

So you have a large number of files with implicit dependencies based on the order in which you list them in your Gruntfile, and which must be manually maintained. Don't we have new-fangled computer things to sort this out for us? Add this to your source files:

// load: some_loadtime_dependency.js

// run: a_runtime_dependency.js
/* run: another_runtime_dependency.js */
// run: a.js, long/list.js, of/runtime/dependencies.js

(function() {
  // …
}( SomeLoadtimeDependency ));

Then, instead of using the concat task, use the depconcat task.

grunt.initConfig({
  depconcat: {
    dist: {
      src: ['src/**/*.js'],
      dest: 'dist/foo.js'
    }
  }
});

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

• 2012/02/18 - v0.1.2 - Fix broken rc1 build.
• 2012/02/17 - v0.1.2rc1 - Update to support grunt 0.4.0.
• 2012/06/12 - v0.1.1 - Initial release.

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Eric Li
Licensed under the MIT license.