grunt-contrib-jst

Precompile Underscore templates to JST file.

Note that this plugin has not yet been released, and only works with the latest bleeding-edge, in-development version of grunt. See the When will I be able to use in-development feature 'X'? FAQ entry for more information.

Getting Started

If you haven't used grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide.

From the same directory as your project's Gruntfile and package.json, install this plugin with the following command:

npm install grunt-contrib-jst --save-dev

Once that's done, add this line to your project's Gruntfile:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-jst');

If the plugin has been installed correctly, running grunt --help at the command line should list the newly-installed plugin's task or tasks. In addition, the plugin should be listed in package.json as a devDependency, which ensures that it will be installed whenever the npm install command is run.

The jst task

Overview

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

grunt.initConfig({
  jst: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
})

Options

files

Type: Object

This defines what files this task will process and should contain key:value pairs.

The key (destination) should be an unique filepath (supports grunt.template) and the value (source) should be a filepath or an array of filepaths (supports minimatch).

Note: Values are precompiled to the namespaced JST array in the order passed.

options.namespace

Type: String Default: 'JST'

The namespace in which the precompiled templates will be asssigned. Use dot notation (e.g. App.Templates) for nested namespaces.

options.processName

Type: function Default: null

This option accepts a function which takes one argument (the template filepath) and returns a string which will be used as the key for the precompiled template object. The example below stores all templates on the default JST namespace in capital letters.

options: {
  processName: function(filename) {
    return filename.toUpperCase();
  }
}

options.templateSettings

Type: Object Default: null

The settings passed to underscore when compiling templates.

jst: {
  compile: {
    options: {
      templateSettings: {
        interpolate : /\{\{(.+?)\}\}/g
      }
    },
    files: {
      "path/to/compiled/templates.js": ["path/to/source/**/*.html"]
    }
  }
}

Examples

jst: {
  compile: {
    options: {
      templateSettings: {
        interpolate : /\{\{(.+?)\}\}/g
      }
    },
    files: {
      "path/to/compiled/templates.js": ["path/to/source/**/*.html"]
    }
  }
}

Release History

• 2012-10-11 - v0.3.1 - Rename grunt-contrib-lib dep to grunt-lib-contrib.
• 2012-08-22 - v0.3.0 - Options no longer accepted from global config key.
• 2012-08-15 - v0.2.3 - Support for nested namespaces.
• 2012-08-11 - v0.2.2 - Added processName functionality & escaping single quotes in filenames.
• 2012-08-09 - v0.2.0 - Refactored from grunt-contrib into individual repo.

-- Task submitted by Tim Branyen.

Generated on Thu Oct 18 2012 19:03:04.