grunt-acetate

Grunt plugin for the Acetate static site builter.

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-acetate --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-acetate');

The "acetate" task

Overview

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

grunt.initConfig({
  acetate: {
    build: {
      options: {
        mode: 'build'
      }
    },
  },
});

Options

Option	Default	Description
config	'acetate.conf.js'	The name of your configuration file.
root	process.cwd()	The root directory where you are working. This shoudl contain your src and dest folders.
src	'src'	The folder where pages are located in
dest	'build'	The folder where pages will be built.
mode	build	The task that Acetate will run. Should be one of server, watch or build.
port	8000	Integer. The port on which the webserver will respond.
host	'localhost'	The hostname to server the website on.
log	'info'	Logging level to use. Should be one of debug, verbose, info, success, warn, error, silent.
args	{}	Any additonal arguments you want to be available under acetate.args in your config file.

Usage Examples

Simple Build

A simple example that will build your entire project.

grunt.initConfig({
  acetate: {
    build: {
      options: {
        mode: 'build'
      }
    },
  }
});

Acetate Server + Grunt Watch

It is recommened that you use Acetate's built in server for development since it automatically enables both live reload when pages change and faster startup and build speeds. Run the watch task after Acetate to keep the task alive indefinitly.

grunt.initConfig({
  acetate: {
    dev: {
      options: {
        mode: 'server'
      }
    },
  },
  watch: {
    ...
  },
});
 
grunt.registerTask('default', ['acetate:dev', 'watch']);

Acetate Watch + Grunt Watch

If you prefer to user your own server to serve files built by Acetate insteed of the built-in Acetate server you can use the built-in file watcher for Acetate.

grunt.initConfig({
  acetate: {
    dev: {
      options: {
        mode: 'watch'
      }
    },
  },
  watch: {
    ...
  },
  connect: {
    ...
  }
});
 
grunt.registerTask('default', ['acetate:dev', 'connect', 'watch']);

Acetate Watch + Grunt Concurrent

If you are using grunt-concurrent to run your tasks in parrallel with either the built-in Acetate server or watcher make sure you specify the keepalive option.

grunt.initConfig({
  acetate: {
    watch: {
      options: {
        mode: 'watch',
        keepalive: true
      }
    }
  },
  watch: {
    ...
  },
  connect: {
    ...
  },
  concurrent: {
    dev: ['acetate:watch', 'connect', 'watch'],
  }
});
 
grunt.registerTask('default', ['concurrent:dev']);

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.

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