load-grunt-tasks

Load multiple grunt tasks using globbing patterns

Usually you would have to load each task one by one, which is unnecessarily cumbersome.

This module will read the dependencies/devDependencies/peerDependencies/optionalDependencies in your package.json and load grunt tasks that match the provided patterns.

Before

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-shell');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-sass');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-recess');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-sizediff');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-svgmin');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-styl');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-php');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-eslint');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-concurrent');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-bower-requirejs');

After

require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt);

Install

$ npm install --save-dev load-grunt-tasks

Usage

// Gruntfile.js
module.exports = grunt => {
    // Load all grunt tasks matching the ['grunt-*', '@*/grunt-*'] patterns
    require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt);
 
    grunt.initConfig({});
    grunt.registerTask('default', []);
};

Examples

Load all grunt tasks

require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt);

Equivalent to:

require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt, {pattern: ['grunt-*', '@*/grunt-*']});

Load all grunt-contrib tasks

require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt, {pattern: 'grunt-contrib-*'});

Load all grunt-contrib tasks and another non-contrib task

require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt, {pattern: ['grunt-contrib-*', 'grunt-shell']});

Load all grunt-contrib tasks excluding one

You can exclude tasks using the negate ! globbing pattern:

require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt, {pattern: ['grunt-contrib-*', '!grunt-contrib-coffee']});

Set custom path to package.json

require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt, {config: '../package'});

Only load from devDependencies

require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt, {scope: 'devDependencies'});

Only load from devDependencies and dependencies

require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt, {scope: ['devDependencies', 'dependencies']});

All options in use

require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt, {
    pattern: 'grunt-contrib-*',
    config: '../package.json',
    scope: 'devDependencies',
    requireResolution: true
});

Options

pattern

Type: string | string[]
Default: ['grunt-*', '@*/grunt-*'] (Glob pattern)

config

Type: string | object
Default: Path to nearest package.json

scope

Type: string | string[]
Default: ['dependencies', 'devDependencies', 'peerDependencies', 'optionalDependencies']
Values: 'dependencies', 'devDependencies', 'peerDependencies', 'optionalDependencies', 'bundledDependencies'

requireResolution

Type: boolean
Default: false

Traverse up the file hierarchy looking for dependencies like require(), rather than the default grunt-like behavior of loading tasks only in the immediate node_modules directory.