grunt-jsforce-deploy

A grunt task for deploying Salesforce package, using JSforce's Metadata API feature. As it is implemented purely in Node.js, you do not have to setup Force.com Migration Tool (Ant, Java) anymore.

Setup

$ npm init
$ npm install grunt grunt-jsforce-deploy --save-dev

Example

Project Directory

├── Gruntfile.js
├── package.json
└── pkg
    ├── classes
    ├── objects
    ├── package.xml
    ├── pages
    └── staticresources

Gruntfile.js

module.exports = function(grunt) {
  grunt.loadNpmTasks("grunt-jsforce-deploy");
 
  grunt.initConfig({
    jsforce_deploy: {
      pkg: {
        expand: true,
        cwd: ".",
        src: [ "pkg/**" ]
      },
      options: {
        username: process.env.SF_USERNAME,
        password: process.env.SF_PASSWORD,
//        loginUrl: "https://test.salesforce.com",
//        pollTimeout: 120*1000,  // set polling timeout to 120sec (default is 60sec)
//        pollInterval: 10*1000,  // set polling interval to 10sec (default is 5sec)
      }
    }
  });
 
  grunt.registerTask("deploy", [ "jsforce_deploy" ]);
};

Deploy

$ SF_USERNAME=[e-mail] SF_PASSWORD=yourpassword grunt deploy

or if you have foreman installed, create .env file with above credential information, and execute :

$ foreman run grunt deploy