grunt-blobify

Grunt task to convert any files to Blob for usage in browser

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt >=0.4.0

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-blobify --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-blobify');

Blobify task

options

target

Type: String. Values: es6, global. Default: es6.
Compiles result of task as: * es6 - export default {...}; * global - window.files = {};

targetNamespace

Type: String. Default: window. Namespace for global target.

Examples

global target

blobify: {
    main: {
        options: {
            target: 'global',
            targetNamespace: 'myApp.cache'
        },
        src: [
            '/YOUR_PATH/*.png',
            '/YOUR_PATH2/*.docx'
        ],
        dest: 'YOUR_PATH/filesCache.js'
    }
}

After running grunt blobify:main we will have in 'YOUR_PATH/filesCache.js':

....
myApp.cache.files = {
    '/YOUR_PATH/*.png': {Blob},
    '/YOUR_PATH2/*.docx': {Blob}
};

ES6 target

blobify: {
    main: {
        options: {
            target: 'es6' //or you may remove options, target has 'es6' value by default
        },
        src: [
            '/YOUR_PATH/*.png',
            '/YOUR_PATH2/*.docx'
        ],
        dest: 'YOUR_PATH/filesCache.js'
    }
}

After running grunt blobify:main we will have in 'YOUR_PATH/filesCache.js':

....
var files = {
    '/YOUR_PATH/*.png': {Blob},
    '/YOUR_PATH2/*.docx': {Blob}
};
....
exports default files;