Grunt-bashpack

Create a bash executable (bashpack) from your node project

This makes is easy to create single-file executables for your projects

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

npm install grunt-bashpack --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('bashpack');

The "bashpack" task

Overview

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

grunt.initConfig({
  bashpack: {
    startFile: './bin/yourstartfile',
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
  },
})

Options

For the options see the documentation of bashpack http://github.com/jedi4ever/bashpack

Usage Examples

grunt.initConfig({
  pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
  'bashpack': {
    startScript: 'bin/hello.js',
    darwin: {
      options: {
        outputFile: 'darwin.run',
        node: {
          version: 'latest',
          arch: 'x86'
        }
      },
    },
    linux: {
      options: {
        outputFile: 'linux.run',
        node: {
          version: '0.10.4',
          platform: 'linux',
          arch: 'x86'
        }
      },
    }
  }
});