grunt-bower

Copy bower installed components to dist folder.

Getting Started

Install this grunt plugin next to your project's Gruntfile.js with: npm install grunt-bower

Then add this line to your project's grunt.js gruntfile:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-bower');

Documentation

To your Gruntfile.js, add:

bower: {
  dev: {
    dest: 'dest/path'
  }
}

add stripAffix option if you'd like to have lib names with its file type affix to be stripped, things like /\.js$/, /js$/ or /\.css$/ etc.:

bower: {
  dev: {
    dest: 'dest/path',
    options: {
      stripAffix: true
    }
  }
}

stripAffix could cause name confliction, use with caution! If you were using grunt-bower prior to v0.9.0, stripJsAffix is now an alias to stripAffix option.

if you want to assign different destination folder for other file types:

bower: {
  dev: {
    dest: 'dest/',
    js_dest: 'dest/js',
    css_dest: 'dest/styles'
  }
}

file types without a [file_type]_dest will go to dest folder.

if you want to have more specific dest options for certain packages:

bower: {
  dev: {
    dest: 'public/',
    css_dest: 'public/styles',
    options: {
      packageSpecific: {
        bootstrap: {
          dest: 'public/fonts',
          css_dest: 'public/css/bootstrap'
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

finally, if grunt-bower not copying the files you want:

bower: {
  dev: {
    dest: 'public/',
    options: {
      packageSpecific: {
        'typeahead.js': {
          files: [
            "dist/typeahead.bundle.js"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

You can ignore some packages if you don't want them to be copied:

bower: {
  dev: {
    dest: 'public/',
    options: {
      ignorePackages: ['jquery']
    }
  }
}

If you want the exported files to be organized by package, use expand option. For example, such config will result in the file structure like this:

bower: {
  dev: {
    dest: 'public/vendor/',
    options: {
      expand: true
    }
  }
}

/public
  /vendor
    /package1
	  package1_file1.js
	  package1_file2.js
	  package1.css
	/package2
	  package2.js
	  package2.css

Or organized by file type in addition:

bower: {
  dev: {
    dest: 'public/',
	js_dest: 'public/js/'
	css_dest: 'public/css/',
    options: {
      expand: true
    }
  }
}

/public
  /js
    /package1
	  package1_file1.js
	  package1_file2.js
	/package2
	  package2.js
  /css
    /package1
	  package1.css
	/package2
	  package2.css

Change Logs

• Apr 21, 2014

  Fix issue #25: packageSpecific dest option not followed (Tomislav Capan)

• Apr 09, 2014 v0.11.0

  Add expand option to have files orgranized by packages. (Artem Chivchalov)

• Apr 09, 2014 v0.10.0

  Add ignorePackages option.
  Fix possible issue with path.sep.
  Thank you, Artem Chivchalov!

• Apr 09, 2014 v0.9.3

  Fix a issue when bower components are installed to nested directory, grunt-bower won't be able to copy component files.
  Thank you, Jooyung Han

• Mar 01, 2014 v0.9.0

  Better support for bower packages with only css files

• Feb 13, 2014 v0.8.4

  Using latest bower

• Feb 09, 2014 v0.8.0

  Reintroduced the ability to handle multiple file support
  Removed basePath option

• Sep 30, 2013 v0.7.0

  Added css and multiple file support
  Thank you, Juri Saltbacka!!

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using grunt.

License

Copyright (c) 2012 curist Licensed under the MIT license.