grunt-nugetter

Download nuget packages

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-nugetter --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-nugetter');

The "nugetter" task

Overview

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

grunt.initConfig({
  nugetter: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    }
  },
});

Options

options.id

Type: String Default value: ''

The id of the nuget package you want to download.

options.version

Type: String Default value: ''

The optional version you would like to download. If not given, downloads latest.

options.server

Type: String Default value: 'http://nuget.org/api/v2/'

Allows you to point to internal nuget server.

options.dest

Type: String Default value: '%(id)s.zip'

Where the unzipped files should be stored. Option supports referencing other options as a named parameter.

options.tmp

Type: String Default value: '%(id)s.zip'

Where the package sholud be temporarily stored. Option supports referencing other options as a named parameter. File is automatically deleted if tmpDelete is true.

options.tmpDelete

Type: Boolean Default value: true

Whether the temporary package is automatically deleted.

Usage Examples

Default Options

This is the most basic example, using default locations and server to download the jQuery NuGet package.

grunt.initConfig({
  nugetter: {
    options: {
      packages: [
        {
          id: 'jQuery'
        }
      ]
    }
  }
});

Custom Options

This example shows how to use a custom server, custom destination, and multiple packages.

grunt.initConfig({
  nugetter: {
    options: {
      packages: [
        {
          id: 'jQuery'
        },
        {
          id: 'CustomPackage',
          dest: '_source/nuget/%(id)s'
          server: 'http://my-custom-server/api/'
        }
      ]
    }
  },
});