This grunt plugin is focused towards building a static file HMTL/CSS/JS styleguide. In reality, though, it's just a static site generator. This means, that you can use it to compile almost any kind of static site you can imagine.
grunt.initConfig({
/**
* Style Guide Compiler
*/
styleguide: {
basic: {
// Compiler configuration:
// Paths relative to your Gruntfile
sourceDir: "./style-guide/src",
outputDir: "./style-guide/dist",
// Paths relative to sourceDir
template: "index.html",
partials: "tests/**/*.html",
guideCSS: "main.scss",
guideJS: "main.js",
favicon: "favicon.ico",
// Any other arbitrary keys you want can be included here. They
// are made available to the template. For example you might include:
// URLs to CSS files to include
coreCSS: [
'/assets/example-1.css',
'/assets/example-2.css'
],
// URLs to Javascript files to include
coreJS: [
'/assets/example-1.js',
'/assets/example-2.js'
],
// A title for my styleguide
title: "My Fancy Style Guide"
}
}
});
grunt.loadNpmTasks('silvermine-styleguide');
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| sourceDir | This is the path (relative to your Gruntfile) that defines where your site's source files are placed. |
| outputDir | This is the path (relative to your Gruntfile) that defines where the compiled output will be placed. |
| template | This is the name of the Nunjucks HTML template to compile on the server. Generally this is your index.html document. |
| partials | This is a glob pattern of Nunjucks HTML templates that should be precompiled into a client-side javascript file. |
| compiledPartialsName | Filename to save precompiled templates into. Defaults to templates.js |
| guideCSS | This is the path (relative to the sourceDir) of the CSS or Sass for your site. It will be run through the Sass compiler to be compiled into CSS in the outputDir . |
| guideJS | This is the path (relative to the sourceDir) of the Javascript for your site. It will be run through the Browserify compiler and placed in the outputDir. |
| favicon | Path (relative to the sourceDir) of your site's favicon. |
| enableWatch | This is a boolean (default true) that may be used to enable or disable watching of template files in Nunjucks. |
During compilation, the partials directory will be analyzed. Metadata and path information will be extracted and made available to the server-side template while rendering. Below are some example templates.
---
title: Form Buttons
description: A sample selection of HTML button elements
---
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block content %}
<form>
<fieldset>
<p><input type="button" value="Input type button"></p>
<p><input type="reset" value="Input type reset"></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Input type submit"></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Input type submit disabled" disabled></p>
<p><button type="button">Button type button</button></p>
<p><button type="reset">Button type reset</button></p>
<p><button type="submit">Button type submit</button></p>
<p><button type="button" disabled>Button type button disabled</button></p>
<p><button>Button</button></p>
</fieldset>
</form>
{% endblock %}
Client side template optionally begin with YAML formatted front-matter. This can be used to describe the using any arbitrary keys desired. This YAML will be parsed at pre-compile time and made available to the server side template.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>{{ title }}</title>
</head>
{% macro selector(tree) %}
<ul>
{% for group in tree.subgroups %}
<li>
<p>{{ group.name }}</p>
{{ selector(group) }}
</li>
{% endfor %}
{% for partial in tree.partials %}
<li>
<p data-path="{{ partial.path }}">{{ partial.name }}</p>
</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
{% endmacro %}
<body>
<div id="metadata" style="display:none;">{{ metadata }}</div>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Partials</p>
{{ selector(partials) }}
</li>
</ul>
<script type="text/javascript" src="templates.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="main.js"></script>
</body>
</html>