grunt-booty

0.2.1 • Public • Published

grunt-booty

Adds the bootstrap to your project from a bower install - (optionally includes font-awesome)

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-booty --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-booty');

The "booty" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named booty to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig(), it's a multitask so you'll need to add a task identier (e.g. dev):

grunt.initConfig({
  booty: {
    dev: {
      options: {
        componentPath: '/path/to/bower/components/',
        dest: '/path/to/styles/directory/'
      }
    }
  }
})

Options

options.componentPath

The location of the bower installs

options.dest

The stylesheet destination for all of the bootstrap and font-awesome goodness

Usage Examples

The plugin is designed to be able to be integrated easily into a number of projects although the initial use case is to include bootstrap and font-awesome-more into a yeoman angular scaffold ( using yeoman 1.0 ). These are the steps to do that:

  • Make sure yeoman, bower, grunt and the angular generator are installed ( more info )

    npm install -g yo grunt-cli bower
    npm install -g generator-angular generator-karma
  • Create a new directory and scaffold the project with yeoman. Yeoman will ask for a number of setup options, just hit n for everything ( you can add the additional angular stuff if you need but no need for the Compass version of bootstrap )

    mkdir bootilicious && cd $_
    yo angular
  • Install the components we want from bower and install the grunt tasks we need to work with them

    bower install bootstrap font-awesome-more --save
    npm install grunt-booty grunt-contrib-less --save-dev
  • Everything will be installed and ready to go but there is a quick bit of scaffolding before we can set up the tasks to run - go ahead and create a css and a less folder in styles, we can also delete the pre-generated main.css as we’ll be using a slightly different structure ( grunt-booty will very soon take care of this step for you )

    mkdir -p app/styles/{css,less}
    rm app/styles/main.css
  • Create main.less in app/styles/less and add these lines to import bootstrap and font-awesome-more ( if you want the extras in font-awesome-more then import them here ):

    vi app/styles/less/main.less
    @import './../bootstrap/bootstrap';
    @import './../bootstrap/responsive';
    @import './../font-awesome-more/font-awesome';
  • While we’re house keeping we should also update the link to the main.css file that will be created when the task is run. Replace line 14 in index.html with this ( adds the css folder to the path for the css ):

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/css/main.css">
  • Now it’s time to set up the tasks. Add these tasks to your Gruntfile.initConfig object:

    booty: {
      dev: {
        options: {
          componentPath: '<%= yeoman.app %>/components/',
          dest: '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/'
        }
      }
    },
    less: {
      dev: {
        options: {
          paths: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/less/']
        },
        files: {
          '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/css/main.css': '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/less/main.less'
        }
      }
    }

    ( Booty is a one-time assembly task—unless you’re reassembling bootstrap and font-awesome-more after an update—but you'll probably want to compile your less more than once so you'll probably want to add the less task to the server task that is scaffolded from yeoman and additionally add your less to the watch task )

  • Everything should be ready to rock so hit up your tasks

    grunt booty
    grunt less
  • Now fire up the server to see the yeoman generated index page, complete with bootstrappy goodness

    grunt server
  • To test that font-awesome-more has been also been included in your project go ahead and open up a new bash tab to keep the watch task running and replace line 2 in app/views/main.html with this:

    vi app/views/main.html
    <h1><i class="icon-github icon-large"></i> 'Allo, 'Allo!</h1>
  • Now get to work creating awesome things

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

22.04.2013 v0.2.1 Corrections to vanilla test case - Detailed usage example using yeoman angular generator

20.04.2013 v0.2.0 Task ready to roll with test case - Initial deploy to npm


Task submitted by Matt Styles @veryfizzyjelly

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