Grunt JS / Yeoman Generator with Sass, Compass, Susy - javascript

New to Grunt JS. Trying to add Compass/Susy to a project that I created with Grunt/Yeoman. Not 100% sure how the difffernece but here is what i think and the overall synopsis of my problem:
Bower - strictly a package manager (lets me download and include the latest version of XYZ
Yeoman - a scaffolding. Quickly creates the barebones of a XYZ project
Grunt JS - compiles the project as I'm working on it.
If those are correct, great. I'm still running an issue when trying to include Compass into my project. All articles, blogposts or docs I've found seem to be a bit old (mid 2013) so not sure if documentation changed or anything. I've even referred to the grunt-contrib-compass docs but can't seem to figure out whats going on.
When I run the yeoman webapp generator I only include Modernizr from the three initial options (Bootstrap, Sass, Modernizr). I've tried including Compass when I've already included Sass from the generator and it always results in errors.
I've downloaded and included grunt-contrib-compass in the dev of my project, its included in my package.json file. From there, I've added the Compass Grunt options into my gruntfile.js and I've, luckily, had no error thus far. But nothing works. The file isn't being watched. I have no clue if Compass has been added corretly or at all.
Any Help?
Below are my package.json, gruntfile.js, and bower.json.
More than happy to provide anything else.
package.json
{
"name": "testapp",
"version": "0.0.0",
"dependencies": {},
"devDependencies": {
"grunt": "~0.4.1",
"grunt-autoprefixer": "~0.7.2",
"grunt-bower-install": "~1.4.0",
"grunt-concurrent": "~0.5.0",
"grunt-contrib-clean": "~0.5.0",
"grunt-contrib-compass": "^0.8.0",
"grunt-contrib-concat": "~0.3.0",
"grunt-contrib-connect": "~0.7.1",
"grunt-contrib-copy": "~0.5.0",
"grunt-contrib-cssmin": "~0.9.0",
"grunt-contrib-htmlmin": "~0.2.0",
"grunt-contrib-imagemin": "~0.6.0",
"grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.9.2",
"grunt-contrib-uglify": "~0.4.0",
"grunt-contrib-watch": "~0.6.1",
"grunt-mocha": "~0.4.10",
"grunt-modernizr": "~0.5.2",
"grunt-newer": "~0.7.0",
"grunt-rev": "~0.1.0",
"grunt-svgmin": "~0.4.0",
"grunt-usemin": "~2.1.0",
"jshint-stylish": "~0.1.5",
"load-grunt-tasks": "~0.4.0",
"time-grunt": "~0.3.1"
},
"engines": {
"node": ">=0.10.0"
}
}
Gruntfile.js
// Generated on 2014-06-12 using generator-webapp 0.4.9
'use strict';
// # Globbing
// for performance reasons we're only matching one level down:
// 'test/spec/{,*/}*.js'
// use this if you want to recursively match all subfolders:
// 'test/spec/**/*.js'
module.exports = function (grunt) {
// Load grunt tasks automatically
require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt);
// Time how long tasks take. Can help when optimizing build times
require('time-grunt')(grunt);
// Configurable paths
var config = {
app: 'app',
dist: 'dist'
};
// Define the configuration for all the tasks
grunt.initConfig({
// Project settings
config: config,
// Watches files for changes and runs tasks based on the changed files
watch: {
bower: {
files: ['bower.json'],
tasks: ['bowerInstall']
},
js: {
files: ['<%= config.app %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js'],
tasks: ['jshint'],
options: {
livereload: true
}
},
jstest: {
files: ['test/spec/{,*/}*.js'],
tasks: ['test:watch']
},
gruntfile: {
files: ['Gruntfile.js']
},
styles: {
files: ['<%= config.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.css'],
tasks: ['newer:copy:styles', 'autoprefixer']
},
sass: {
files: ['**/*.{scss,sass}'],
tasks: ['compass:dist']
},
css: {
files: ['<%= config.app %>/_sass/*.scss'],
tasks: ['compass:dist']
},
livereload: {
options: {
livereload: '<%= connect.options.livereload %>'
},
files: [
'<%= config.app %>/{,*/}*.html',
'.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css',
'<%= config.app %>/images/{,*/}*'
]
}
},
// The actual grunt server settings
connect: {
options: {
port: 9000,
open: true,
livereload: 35729,
// Change this to '0.0.0.0' to access the server from outside
hostname: 'localhost'
},
livereload: {
options: {
middleware: function(connect) {
return [
connect.static('.tmp'),
connect().use('/bower_components', connect.static('./bower_components')),
connect.static(config.app)
];
}
}
},
test: {
options: {
open: false,
port: 9001,
middleware: function(connect) {
return [
connect.static('.tmp'),
connect.static('test'),
connect().use('/bower_components', connect.static('./bower_components')),
connect.static(config.app)
];
}
}
},
dist: {
options: {
base: '<%= config.dist %>',
livereload: false
}
}
},
// Empties folders to start fresh
clean: {
dist: {
files: [{
dot: true,
src: [
'.tmp',
'<%= config.dist %>/*',
'!<%= config.dist %>/.git*'
]
}]
},
server: '.tmp'
},
// Make sure code styles are up to par and there are no obvious mistakes
jshint: {
options: {
jshintrc: '.jshintrc',
reporter: require('jshint-stylish')
},
all: [
'Gruntfile.js',
'<%= config.app %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js',
'!<%= config.app %>/scripts/vendor/*',
'test/spec/{,*/}*.js'
]
},
// Mocha testing framework configuration options
mocha: {
all: {
options: {
run: true,
urls: ['http://<%= connect.test.options.hostname %>:<%= connect.test.options.port %>/index.html']
}
}
},
// Add vendor prefixed styles
autoprefixer: {
options: {
browsers: ['last 1 version']
},
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '.tmp/styles/',
src: '{,*/}*.css',
dest: '.tmp/styles/'
}]
}
},
// compass
compass: {
dist: {
options: {
require: 'susy',
sassDir: '_sass',
cssDir: 'styles',
config: 'config.rb'
}
}
},
// Automatically inject Bower components into the HTML file
bowerInstall: {
app: {
src: ['<%= config.app %>/index.html'],
exclude: ['bower_components/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js']
}
},
// Renames files for browser caching purposes
rev: {
dist: {
files: {
src: [
'<%= config.dist %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js',
'<%= config.dist %>/styles/{,*/}*.css',
'<%= config.dist %>/images/{,*/}*.*',
'<%= config.dist %>/styles/fonts/{,*/}*.*',
'<%= config.dist %>/*.{ico,png}'
]
}
}
},
// Reads HTML for usemin blocks to enable smart builds that automatically
// concat, minify and revision files. Creates configurations in memory so
// additional tasks can operate on them
useminPrepare: {
options: {
dest: '<%= config.dist %>'
},
html: '<%= config.app %>/index.html'
},
// Performs rewrites based on rev and the useminPrepare configuration
usemin: {
options: {
assetsDirs: ['<%= config.dist %>', '<%= config.dist %>/images']
},
html: ['<%= config.dist %>/{,*/}*.html'],
css: ['<%= config.dist %>/styles/{,*/}*.css']
},
// The following *-min tasks produce minified files in the dist folder
imagemin: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= config.app %>/images',
src: '{,*/}*.{gif,jpeg,jpg,png}',
dest: '<%= config.dist %>/images'
}]
}
},
svgmin: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= config.app %>/images',
src: '{,*/}*.svg',
dest: '<%= config.dist %>/images'
}]
}
},
htmlmin: {
dist: {
options: {
collapseBooleanAttributes: true,
collapseWhitespace: true,
removeAttributeQuotes: true,
removeCommentsFromCDATA: true,
removeEmptyAttributes: true,
removeOptionalTags: true,
removeRedundantAttributes: true,
useShortDoctype: true
},
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= config.dist %>',
src: '{,*/}*.html',
dest: '<%= config.dist %>'
}]
}
},
// By default, your `index.html`'s <!-- Usemin block --> will take care of
// minification. These next options are pre-configured if you do not wish
// to use the Usemin blocks.
// cssmin: {
// dist: {
// files: {
// '<%= config.dist %>/styles/main.css': [
// '.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css',
// '<%= config.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.css'
// ]
// }
// }
// },
// uglify: {
// dist: {
// files: {
// '<%= config.dist %>/scripts/scripts.js': [
// '<%= config.dist %>/scripts/scripts.js'
// ]
// }
// }
// },
// concat: {
// dist: {}
// },
// Copies remaining files to places other tasks can use
copy: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
dot: true,
cwd: '<%= config.app %>',
dest: '<%= config.dist %>',
src: [
'*.{ico,png,txt}',
'.htaccess',
'images/{,*/}*.webp',
'{,*/}*.html',
'styles/fonts/{,*/}*.*'
]
}]
},
styles: {
expand: true,
dot: true,
cwd: '<%= config.app %>/styles',
dest: '.tmp/styles/',
src: '{,*/}*.css'
}
},
// Generates a custom Modernizr build that includes only the tests you
// reference in your app
modernizr: {
dist: {
devFile: 'bower_components/modernizr/modernizr.js',
outputFile: '<%= config.dist %>/scripts/vendor/modernizr.js',
files: {
src: [
'<%= config.dist %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js',
'<%= config.dist %>/styles/{,*/}*.css',
'!<%= config.dist %>/scripts/vendor/*'
]
},
uglify: true
}
},
// Run some tasks in parallel to speed up build process
concurrent: {
server: [
'copy:styles'
],
test: [
'copy:styles'
],
dist: [
'copy:styles',
'imagemin',
'svgmin'
]
}
});
// load plugins
// load plugins
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-compass');
grunt.registerTask('serve', function (target) {
if (target === 'dist') {
return grunt.task.run(['build', 'connect:dist:keepalive']);
}
grunt.task.run([
'clean:server',
'concurrent:server',
'autoprefixer',
'connect:livereload',
'watch'
]);
});
grunt.registerTask('server', function (target) {
grunt.log.warn('The `server` task has been deprecated. Use `grunt serve` to start a server.');
grunt.task.run([target ? ('serve:' + target) : 'serve']);
});
grunt.registerTask('test', function (target) {
if (target !== 'watch') {
grunt.task.run([
'clean:server',
'concurrent:test',
'autoprefixer'
]);
}
grunt.task.run([
'connect:test',
'mocha'
]);
});
grunt.registerTask('build', [
'clean:dist',
'useminPrepare',
'concurrent:dist',
'autoprefixer',
'concat',
'cssmin',
'uglify',
'copy:dist',
'modernizr',
'rev',
'usemin',
'htmlmin'
]);
grunt.registerTask('default', [
'newer:jshint',
'test',
'build'
]);
};
bower.json
{
"name": "testapp",
"private": true,
"dependencies": {
"modernizr": "~2.6.2",
"jquery": "~1.11.0"
},
"devDependencies": {}
}


This is sort of a half-answer, and something I'm working one myself but haven't had the time to work through completely. You can use the Angular WebApp generator which has compass built in and then go ahead and strip out much of the angular if you want to.
In terms of getting compass up and running that type of projects it's somewhat straightforward, but not well documented. I wrote about it here.
The Compass processing should be all setup for you in Grunt.js as well as Compass contrib in your package.json file. It'll look like this, I've added the options for compass requirements and Bundler:
compass: {
options: {
sassDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles',
cssDir: '.tmp/styles',
generatedImagesDir: '.tmp/images/generated',
imagesDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/images',
javascriptsDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/scripts',
fontsDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/fonts',
importPath: './bower_components',
httpImagesPath: '/images',
httpGeneratedImagesPath: '/images/generated',
httpFontsPath: '/styles/fonts',
relativeAssets: false,
assetCacheBuster: false,
raw: 'Sass::Script::Number.precision = 10\n',
bundleExec: 'true',
require: ['susy','breakpoint']
},
dist: {
options: {
generatedImagesDir: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images/generated'
}
},
server: {
options: {
debugInfo: true
}
}
}
Any file you want to change and have the project change in need to be in the watch function part of the file. Mine looks like this:
watch: {
/// other things being watched
compass: {
files: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.{scss,sass}',
'<%= yeoman.app %>/sass/{,*/}*.{scss,sass}'],
tasks: ['compass:server', 'autoprefixer']
},
}
I'm basically watching all files inside styles with scss and sass endings. I also setup a sass directory I added to watch.
Hope this helps a little.


I also used the yeoman/generator-webapp and I wanted also to use compass.
I followed the instruction provided on the same page under the Docs heading (We have recipes for integrating other popular technologies like Compass.)
If you already have the compass gem installed and and grunt-contrib-compass via npm, then you just go ahead replace the sass options with compass options and the update your watch and concurrent tasks in your grunt.js file.
Furthermore I also added for my own need susy, breakpoint and html5 and normalize gems and then updated my grunt.js file with the following: require: ['susy','breakpoint','compass-h5bp'] Note, don't forget to add a comma to that snippet if this is not your last line in your compass option.

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I am getting an error like:
>> No "concat" targets found.
Warning: Task "concat" failed.
>> No "cssmin" targets found.
Warning: Task "cssmin" failed.
>> No "uglify" targets found.
Warning: Task "uglify" failed.
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Package.json:
{
"name": "portal20",
"version": "0.0.0",
"dependencies": {},
"repository": {},
"devDependencies": {
"grunt": "^0.4.5",
"grunt-autoprefixer": "^2.0.0",
"grunt-concurrent": "^1.0.0",
"grunt-contrib-clean": "^0.6.0",
"grunt-contrib-compass": "^1.0.0",
"grunt-contrib-concat": "^0.5.0",
"grunt-contrib-connect": "^0.9.0",
"grunt-contrib-copy": "^0.7.0",
"grunt-contrib-cssmin": "^0.12.0",
"grunt-contrib-htmlmin": "^0.4.0",
"grunt-contrib-imagemin": "^0.9.2",
"grunt-contrib-jshint": "^0.11.0",
"grunt-contrib-uglify": "^0.7.0",
"grunt-contrib-watch": "^0.6.1",
"grunt-filerev": "^2.1.2",
"grunt-google-cdn": "^0.4.3",
"grunt-newer": "^1.1.0",
"grunt-ng-annotate": "^0.9.2",
"grunt-svgmin": "^2.0.0",
"grunt-usemin": "^3.0.0",
"grunt-wiredep": "^2.0.0",
"jasmine-core": "^2.4.1",
"jshint-stylish": "^1.0.0",
"karma": "^0.13.22",
"karma-jasmine": "^1.0.2",
"karma-phantomjs-launcher": "^1.0.0",
"load-grunt-tasks": "^3.1.0",
"phantomjs-prebuilt": "^2.1.7",
"time-grunt": "^1.0.0"
},
"engines": {
"node": ">=0.10.0"
},
"scripts": {
"test": "karma start test\\karma.conf.js"
}
}
Grunt file:
// Generated on 2016-04-20 using generator-angular 0.11.1
'use strict';
// # Globbing
// for performance reasons we're only matching one level down:
// 'test/spec/{,*/}*.js'
// use this if you want to recursively match all subfolders:
// 'test/spec/**/*.js'
module.exports = function (grunt) {
// Load grunt tasks automatically
require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt);
// Time how long tasks take. Can help when optimizing build times
require('time-grunt')(grunt);
// Configurable paths for the application
var appConfig = {
app: require('./bower.json').appPath || 'app',
dist: 'dist'
};
// Define the configuration for all the tasks
grunt.initConfig({
// Project settings
yeoman: appConfig,
// Watches files for changes and runs tasks based on the changed files
watch: {
bower: {
files: ['bower.json'],
tasks: ['wiredep']
},
js: {
files: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js'],
tasks: ['newer:jshint:all'],
options: {
livereload: '<%= connect.options.livereload %>'
}
},
jsTest: {
files: ['test/spec/{,*/}*.js'],
tasks: ['newer:jshint:test', 'karma']
},
styles: {
files: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.css'],
tasks: ['newer:copy:styles', 'autoprefixer']
},
gruntfile: {
files: ['Gruntfile.js']
},
livereload: {
options: {
livereload: '<%= connect.options.livereload %>'
},
files: [
'<%= yeoman.app %>/{,*/}*.html',
'.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css',
'<%= yeoman.app %>/images/{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif,webp,svg}'
]
}
},
// The actual grunt server settings
connect: {
options: {
port: 9000,
// Change this to '0.0.0.0' to access the server from outside.
hostname: 'localhost',
livereload: 35729
},
livereload: {
options: {
open: true,
middleware: function (connect) {
return [
connect.static('.tmp'),
connect().use(
'/bower_components',
connect.static('./bower_components')
),
connect().use(
'/app/styles',
connect.static('./app/styles')
),
connect.static(appConfig.app)
];
}
}
},
test: {
options: {
port: 9001,
middleware: function (connect) {
return [
connect.static('.tmp'),
connect.static('test'),
connect().use(
'/bower_components',
connect.static('./bower_components')
),
connect.static(appConfig.app)
];
}
}
},
dist: {
options: {
open: true,
base: '<%= yeoman.dist %>'
}
}
},
// Make sure code styles are up to par and there are no obvious mistakes
jshint: {
options: {
jshintrc: '.jshintrc',
reporter: require('jshint-stylish')
},
all: {
src: [
'Gruntfile.js',
'<%= yeoman.app %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js'
]
},
test: {
options: {
jshintrc: 'test/.jshintrc'
},
src: ['test/spec/{,*/}*.js']
}
},
// Empties folders to start fresh
clean: {
dist: {
files: [{
dot: true,
src: [
'.tmp',
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/{,*/}*',
'!<%= yeoman.dist %>/.git{,*/}*'
]
}]
},
server: '.tmp'
},
// Add vendor prefixed styles
autoprefixer: {
options: {
browsers: ['last 1 version']
},
server: {
options: {
map: true,
},
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '.tmp/styles/',
src: '{,*/}*.css',
dest: '.tmp/styles/'
}]
},
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '.tmp/styles/',
src: '{,*/}*.css',
dest: '.tmp/styles/'
}]
}
},
// Automatically inject Bower components into the app
wiredep: {
app: {
src: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/index.html'],
ignorePath: /\.\.\//
},
test: {
devDependencies: true,
src: '<%= karma.unit.configFile %>',
ignorePath: /\.\.\//,
fileTypes:{
js: {
block: /(([\s\t]*)\/{2}\s*?bower:\s*?(\S*))(\n|\r|.)*?(\/{2}\s*endbower)/gi,
detect: {
js: /'(.*\.js)'/gi
},
replace: {
js: '\'{{filePath}}\','
}
}
}
}
},
// Renames files for browser caching purposes
filerev: {
dist: {
src: [
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js',
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/{,*/}*.css',
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/images/{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif,webp,svg}',
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/fonts/*'
]
}
},
// Reads HTML for usemin blocks to enable smart builds that automatically
// concat, minify and revision files. Creates configurations in memory so
// additional tasks can operate on them
useminPrepare: {
html: '<%= yeoman.app %>/index.html',
options: {
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
flow: {
html: {
steps: {
js: ['concat', 'uglifyjs'],
css: ['cssmin']
},
post: {}
}
}
}
},
// Performs rewrites based on filerev and the useminPrepare configuration
usemin: {
html: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>/{,*/}*.html'],
css: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/{,*/}*.css'],
options: {
assetsDirs: [
'<%= yeoman.dist %>',
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/images',
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles'
]
}
},
// The following *-min tasks will produce minified files in the dist folder
// By default, your `index.html`'s <!-- Usemin block --> will take care of
// minification. These next options are pre-configured if you do not wish
// to use the Usemin blocks.
// cssmin: {
// dist: {
// files: {
// '<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/main.css': [
// '.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css'
// ]
// }
// }
// },
// uglify: {
// dist: {
// files: {
// '<%= yeoman.dist %>/scripts/scripts.js': [
// '<%= yeoman.dist %>/scripts/scripts.js'
// ]
// }
// }
// },
// concat: {
// dist: {}
// },
imagemin: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>/images',
src: '{*/*}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif,svg}',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images'
}]
}
},
svgmin: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>/images',
src: '{,*/}*.svg',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images'
}]
}
},
htmlmin: {
dist: {
options: {
collapseWhitespace: true,
conservativeCollapse: true,
collapseBooleanAttributes: true,
removeCommentsFromCDATA: true,
removeOptionalTags: true
},
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
src: ['*.html', 'views/{,*/}*.html'],
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>'
}]
}
},
// ng-annotate tries to make the code safe for minification automatically
// by using the Angular long form for dependency injection.
ngAnnotate: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '.tmp/concat/scripts',
src: '*.js',
dest: '.tmp/concat/scripts'
}]
}
},
// Replace Google CDN references
cdnify: {
dist: {
html: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>/*.html']
}
},
// Copies remaining files to places other tasks can use
copy: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
dot: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
src: [
'*.{ico,png,txt}',
'.htaccess',
'*.html',
'views/{,*/}*.html',
'images/{,*/}*.{webp}',
'styles/fonts/{,*/}*.*'
]
}, {
expand: true,
cwd: '.tmp/images',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images',
src: ['generated/*']
}, {
expand: true,
cwd: 'bower_components/bootstrap/dist',
src: 'fonts/*',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>'
}]
},
styles: {
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles',
dest: '.tmp/styles/',
src: '{,*/}*.css'
}
},
// Run some tasks in parallel to speed up the build process
concurrent: {
server: [
'copy:styles'
],
test: [
'copy:styles'
],
dist: [
'copy:styles',
'imagemin',
'svgmin'
]
},
// Test settings
karma: {
unit: {
configFile: 'test/karma.conf.js',
singleRun: true
}
}
});
grunt.registerTask('serve', 'Compile then start a connect web server', function (target) {
if (target === 'dist') {
return grunt.task.run(['build', 'connect:dist:keepalive']);
}
grunt.task.run([
'clean:server',
'wiredep',
'concurrent:server',
'autoprefixer:server',
'connect:livereload',
'watch'
]);
});
grunt.registerTask('server', 'DEPRECATED TASK. Use the "serve" task instead', function (target) {
grunt.log.warn('The `server` task has been deprecated. Use `grunt serve` to start a server.');
grunt.task.run(['serve:' + target]);
});
grunt.registerTask('test', [
'clean:server',
'wiredep',
'concurrent:test',
'autoprefixer',
'connect:test',
'karma'
]);
grunt.registerTask('build', [
'clean:dist',
'wiredep',
'useminPrepare',
'concurrent:dist',
'autoprefixer',
'concat',
'ngAnnotate',
'copy:dist',
'cdnify',
'cssmin',
'uglify',
'filerev',
'usemin',
'htmlmin'
]);
grunt.registerTask('default', [
'newer:jshint',
'test',
'build'
]);
};

// The following *-min tasks will produce minified files in the dist folder
// By default, your `index.html`'s <!-- Usemin block --> will take care of
// minification. These next options are pre-configured if you do not wish
// to use the Usemin blocks.
// cssmin: {
// dist: {
// files: {
// '<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/main.css': [
// '.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css'
// ]
// }
// }
// },
// uglify: {
// dist: {
// files: {
// '<%= yeoman.dist %>/scripts/scripts.js': [
// '<%= yeoman.dist %>/scripts/scripts.js'
// ]
// }
// }
// },
// concat: {
// dist: {}
// },
Those are commented out, and those are the three tasks grunt build can't find...
Either remove the three names from the registerTask corresponding to 'build', or uncomment those.

Grunt build causing Angular app to crash on dist

I am using Grunt and executing cmd "grunt build" to create a distribution folder containing an AngularJS app.
As a standalone my app is working fine. Once I create a distribution for the app the app starts to crash pretty quickly.
I am seeing in F12 Tools Console is:
10 $digest() iterations reached. Aborting!
I am suspicious of a file in my .tmp directory called vendor.js and a failure to minify, uglify and or concat this file correctly because of controller dependency injection variables mangling injected controller arguments like "$scope" to "a" for example, even though I am using ngAnnotate.
See I am using UglifyJs and calling ngAnnotate before Uglify and Concat but I cannot remove UglifyJs from useMinPrepare or I have other errors such as the scripts directory not even being created in my dist directory:
useminPrepare: {
html: '<%= yeoman.app %>/index.html',
options: {
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
flow: {
html: {
steps: {
js: ['concat', 'uglifyjs'],
css: ['cssmin']
},
post: {}
}
}
}
},
I am setting mangle = false in my GruntJs file but I am suspicious of useMinPrepare js: ['concat', 'uglifyjs'] changing the sequence of execution and running uglify before ngAnnotate can run when useMin is called, even though I call useMin after ngAnnotate.
I am new to Grunt and this app has been passed to me from another developer.
I found this article that doesn't exactly make sense to me and also isn't a code change that seems to apply to my Gruntfile.js but I thought maybe I was on to something:
https://github.com/DaftMonk/generator-angular-fullstack/issues/164
I have set the Uglify mangle option to false but it has not fixed my issue.
Here is my Gruntfile.js code:
module.exports = function (grunt) {
// Load grunt tasks automatically
require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt);
// Time how long tasks take. Can help when optimizing build times
require('time-grunt')(grunt);
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-connect-proxy');
// Define the configuration for all the tasks
grunt.initConfig({
// Project settings
yeoman: {
// configurable paths
app: require('./bower.json').appPath || 'app',
dist: 'dist'
},
// Watches files for changes and runs tasks based on the changed files
watch: {
bower: {
files: ['bower.json'],
tasks: ['bowerInstall']
},
js: {
files: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/scripts/**/*.js'],
// tasks: ['newer:jshint:all'],
options: {
livereload: true
}
},
html: {
files: ['**/*.html'],
options: {
livereload: true
}
},
jsTest: {
files: ['test/spec/{,*/}*.js'],
tasks: ['newer:jshint:test', 'karma']
},
compass: {
files: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.{scss,sass}'],
tasks: ['compass:server', 'autoprefixer']
},
gruntfile: {
files: ['Gruntfile.js']
},
livereload: {
options: {
livereload: '<%= connect.options.livereload %>'
},
files: [
'<%= yeoman.app %>/{,*/}*.html',
'.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css',
'<%= yeoman.app %>/images/{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif,webp,svg}'
]
}
},
// The actual grunt server settings
connect: {
options: {
port: 9000,
// Change this to '0.0.0.0' to access the server from outside.
hostname: '0.0.0.0',
//hostname: 'localhost',
livereload: 35729
},
proxies: [{
context: ['/api', '/images'],
host: '127.0.0.1',
port: 60878,
changeOrigin: true
}],
livereload: {
options: {
open: true,
base: [
'.tmp',
'<%= yeoman.app %>'
],
middleware: function (connect, options) {
var middlewares = [];
if (!Array.isArray(options.base)) {
options.base = [options.base];
}
// Setup the proxy
middlewares.push(require('grunt-connect-proxy/lib/utils').proxyRequest);
// setup push state
middlewares.push(require('grunt-connect-pushstate/lib/utils').pushState());
// Serve static files
options.base.forEach(function(base) {
middlewares.push(connect.static(base));
});
return middlewares;
}
}
},
test: {
options: {
port: 9001,
base: [
'.tmp',
'test',
'<%= yeoman.app %>'
]
}
},
dist: {
options: {
base: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
middleware: function (connect, options) {
var middlewares = [];
if (!Array.isArray(options.base)) {
options.base = [options.base];
}
// Setup the proxy
middlewares.push(require('grunt-connect-proxy/lib/utils').proxyRequest);
// setup push state
middlewares.push(require('grunt-connect-pushstate/lib/utils').pushState());
// Serve static files
options.base.forEach(function(base) {
middlewares.push(connect.static(base));
});
return middlewares;
}
}
}
},
// Make sure code styles are up to par and there are no obvious mistakes
jshint: {
options: {
jshintrc: '.jshintrc',
reporter: require('jshint-stylish')
},
all: [
'Gruntfile.js',
'<%= yeoman.app %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js'
],
test: {
options: {
jshintrc: 'test/.jshintrc'
},
src: ['test/spec/{,*/}*.js']
}
},
// Empties folders to start fresh
clean: {
dist: {
files: [{
dot: true,
src: [
'.tmp',
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/*',
'!<%= yeoman.dist %>/.git*'
]
}]
},
server: '.tmp'
},
// Add vendor prefixed styles
autoprefixer: {
options: {
browsers: ['last 1 version']
},
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '.tmp/styles/',
src: '{,*/}*.css',
dest: '.tmp/styles/'
}]
}
},
// Automatically inject Bower components into the app
bowerInstall: {
app: {
src: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/index.html'],
ignorePath: '<%= yeoman.app %>/'
// ,exclude : ["bower_components/angular-snap/angular-snap.css"]
},
sass: {
src: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.{scss,sass}'],
ignorePath: '<%= yeoman.app %>/bower_components/'
}
},
// Compiles Sass to CSS and generates necessary files if requested
compass: {
options: {
sassDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles',
cssDir: '.tmp/styles',
generatedImagesDir: '.tmp/images/generated',
imagesDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/images',
javascriptsDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/scripts',
fontsDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/fonts',
importPath: '<%= yeoman.app %>/bower_components',
httpImagesPath: '/images',
httpGeneratedImagesPath: '/images/generated',
httpFontsPath: '/styles/fonts',
relativeAssets: false,
assetCacheBuster: false,
raw: 'Sass::Script::Number.precision = 10\n'
},
dist: {
options: {
generatedImagesDir: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images/generated',
fontsDir: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/fonts'
}
},
server: {
options: {
debugInfo: false
}
}
},
// Renames files for browser caching purposes
rev: {
dist: {
files: {
src: [
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js',
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/{,*/}*.css',
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/images/{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif,webp,svg}'
// ,'<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/fonts/*'
]
}
}
},
// Reads HTML for usemin blocks to enable smart builds that automatically
// concat, minify and revision files. Creates configurations in memory so
// additional tasks can operate on them
useminPrepare: {
html: '<%= yeoman.app %>/index.html',
options: {
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
flow: {
html: {
steps: {
js: ['concat', 'uglifyjs'],
css: ['cssmin']
},
post: {}
}
}
}
},
uglify: {
dist: {
options : {
report: 'min',
mangle : false
// compress: false,
// beautify : true
}
}
},
// Performs rewrites based on rev and the useminPrepare configuration
usemin: {
html: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>/{,*/}*.html'],
css: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/{,*/}*.css'],
options: {
assetsDirs: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>', '<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/fonts', '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images' ]
}
},
concat: {
options: {
separator: grunt.util.linefeed + ";" + grunt.util.linefeed
}
},
// The following *-min tasks produce minified files in the dist folder
// cssmin: {
// options: {
// root: '<%= yeoman.dist %>'
// }
// },
imagemin: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>/images',
src: '{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif}',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images'
}]
}
},
svgmin: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>/images',
src: '{,*/}*.svg',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images'
}]
}
},
htmlmin: {
dist: {
options: {
collapseWhitespace: true,
collapseBooleanAttributes: true,
removeCommentsFromCDATA: true,
removeOptionalTags: true
},
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
src: ['*.html', 'scripts/{,*/}*.html'],
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>'
}]
}
},
// ngmin tries to make the code safe for minification automatically by
// using the Angular long form for dependency injection. It doesn't work on
// things like resolve or inject so those have to be done manually.
ngAnnotate: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '.tmp/concat/scripts',
src: '*.js',
dest: '.tmp/concat/scripts'
}]
}
},
ngtemplates: {
fctrs: {
cwd: "<%= yeoman.app %>",
src: ['scripts/**/*.html'],
dest: '.tmp/concat/scripts/templates.js'
}
},
// Replace Google CDN references
cdnify: {
dist: {
html: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>/*.html']
}
},
// Copies remaining files to places other tasks can use
copy: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
dot: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
src: [
'*.{ico,png,txt}',
'.htaccess',
'*.html',
'views/{,*/}*.html',
'images/{,*/}*.{webp}',
'styles/fonts/*',
'statics/**',
'test_data/**/*.json'
]
},
{
expand: true,
cwd: '.tmp/images',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images',
src: ['generated/*']
}]
},
styles: {
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles',
dest: '.tmp/styles/',
src: '{,*/}*.css'
}
},
processhtml: {
options : {
commentMarker : "process"
},
dist: {
files: {
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/index.html':['<%= yeoman.dist %>/index.html']
}
}
},
// Run some tasks in parallel to speed up the build process
concurrent: {
server: [
'compass:server'
],
test: [
'compass'
],
dist: [
'compass:dist',
'imagemin',
'svgmin'
]
},
// Test settings
karma: {
unit: {
configFile: 'karma.conf.js',
singleRun: true
}
}
});
grunt.registerTask('serve', function (target) {
if (target === 'dist') {
return grunt.task.run(['build', 'configureProxies:server', 'connect:dist:keepalive']);
}
grunt.task.run([
'clean:server',
'bowerInstall',
'concurrent:server',
'autoprefixer',
'configureProxies:server',
'connect:livereload',
'watch'
]);
});
grunt.registerTask('server', function (target) {
grunt.log.warn('The `server` task has been deprecated. Use `grunt serve` to start a server.');
grunt.task.run(['serve:' + target]);
});
grunt.registerTask('test', [
'clean:server',
'concurrent:test',
'autoprefixer',
'connect:test',
'karma'
]);
grunt.registerTask('build', [
'clean:dist',
'bowerInstall',
'useminPrepare',
'concurrent:dist',
'autoprefixer',
'concat',
'ngAnnotate',
'ngtemplates',
'copy:dist',
'cdnify',
'cssmin',
'uglify',
'rev',
'usemin',
'processhtml',
'htmlmin'
]);
grunt.registerTask('default', [
'newer:jshint',
'test',
'build'
]);
};

So I went down the wrong path thinking smoothing was wrong with Uglify or concat or minification.
The error did not occur with grunt serve but did occur only after a dist package was created with grunt build:dist
So it was deceiving in a sense that my Angular app DID work fine until I created a dist package.
The issue was for me, that I originally had a <ng-include src="'scripts/navigation/navigationMobile.html'"></ng-include> element in my Index.html file.
At some point I created a custom element directive <my-nav></my-nav> which used the same templateUrl = scripts/navigation/navigationMobile.html but I forgot to remove the <ng-include src="'scripts/navigation/navigationMobile.html'"></ng-include> element from my Index.html that <my-nav></my-nav> was intended to replace.
For whatever reason the 10 $digest() iterations reached. Aborting! only occurred after running grunt build and creating the minified, Uglified vendor.js file, it did not occur when just developing and testing using grunt serve but I do not know the exact reason that the error only presented itself after grunt build.
Maybe someone can answer that.

I noticed we need to give a hint to ng-annotate in two cases:
Subclassing (ES6 class) when super class has injectables on constructor and sub class has no constructor;
$get method of a provider
Error in digest check is occurring from a task that only runs in grunt build, or is related to you creating a directive from an ng-include.
When you change from ng-include to have it as your directive's template, angular will suspend compilation until the next digest, when template is eventually loaded, even when it is already in $templateCache.
Reference: https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/service/$compile (see templateUrl)
As a final note, I'd have take a look on ngtemplates because it avoids requests over the wire, and angular compiles templates out-of-order when they come from an external resource, it could be a bug on your implementation of that directive or any of its parents, which is not calling $compile correctly.

To fix this error just open the Gruntfile.js file and add the line extDot: 'last' in both task cssmin and task uglify.
Ex:
cssmin: {
all: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: srcDir,
src: '**/*.css',
dest: buildDir,
ext: '.min.css',
extDot: 'last'
}]
}
},
...
uglify: {
all: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: srcDir,
src: ['**/*.js', '!**/*-spec.js'],
dest: buildDir,
ext: '.min.js',
extDot: 'last'
}]
}
},

GruntJS config styles and scripts path in dist

My folder structure looks like this
public/
app/
scripts/
styles/
index.html
...
dev/
apps/
app/
styles/
scripts/
index.html
...
Gruntfile.js
...
I've changed in Grunfile.js the dist folder, so when I run grunt --force the production folder is public/app. This works fine, but the paths to the folders styles and scripts is not updated with the new one (is still /styles/ instead of /app/styles/), so after generating the dist, I have to manually edit the index.html to adjust the paths.
I had a look at the Gruntfile.js but I couldn't find the right spot where to add this config. It uses almost everywhere <%= yeoman.app %> and <%= yeoman.dist %> so I was thinking it would adjust the paths based on my settings...
This is what I have changed
var appConfig = {
app: require('./bower.json').appPath || 'app',
dist: '/path/to/public/app'
};
Any thoughts?
Gruntfile.js
// Generated on 2015-02-03 using generator-angular 0.10.0
'use strict';
// # Globbing
// for performance reasons we're only matching one level down:
// 'test/spec/{,*/}*.js'
// use this if you want to recursively match all subfolders:
// 'test/spec/**/*.js'
module.exports = function (grunt) {
// Load grunt tasks automatically
require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt);
// Time how long tasks take. Can help when optimizing build times
require('time-grunt')(grunt);
// Configurable paths for the application
var appConfig = {
app: require('./bower.json').appPath || 'app',
dist: '/path/to/public/app'
};
// Define the configuration for all the tasks
grunt.initConfig({
// Project settings
yeoman: appConfig,
// Watches files for changes and runs tasks based on the changed files
watch: {
bower: {
files: ['bower.json'],
tasks: ['wiredep']
},
js: {
files: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js'],
tasks: ['newer:jshint:all'],
options: {
livereload: '<%= connect.options.livereload %>'
}
},
// jsTest: {
// files: ['test/spec/{,*/}*.js'],
// tasks: ['newer:jshint:test', 'karma']
// },
compass: {
files: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.{scss,sass}'],
tasks: ['compass:server', 'autoprefixer']
},
gruntfile: {
files: ['Gruntfile.js']
},
livereload: {
options: {
livereload: '<%= connect.options.livereload %>'
},
files: [
'<%= yeoman.app %>/{,*/}*.html',
'.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css',
'<%= yeoman.app %>/images/{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif,webp,svg}'
]
}
},
// The actual grunt server settings
connect: {
options: {
port: 9000,
// Change this to '0.0.0.0' to access the server from outside.
hostname: 'localhost',
livereload: 35729
},
livereload: {
options: {
open: true,
middleware: function (connect) {
return [
connect.static('.tmp'),
connect().use(
'/bower_components',
connect.static('./bower_components')
),
connect.static(appConfig.app)
];
}
}
},
test: {
options: {
port: 9001,
middleware: function (connect) {
return [
connect.static('.tmp'),
connect.static('test'),
connect().use(
'/bower_components',
connect.static('./bower_components')
),
connect.static(appConfig.app)
];
}
}
},
dist: {
options: {
open: true,
base: '<%= yeoman.dist %>'
}
}
},
// Make sure code styles are up to par and there are no obvious mistakes
jshint: {
options: {
jshintrc: '.jshintrc',
reporter: require('jshint-stylish')
},
all: {
src: [
'Gruntfile.js',
'<%= yeoman.app %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js'
]
},
test: {
options: {
jshintrc: 'test/.jshintrc'
},
src: ['test/spec/{,*/}*.js']
}
},
// Empties folders to start fresh
clean: {
dist: {
files: [{
dot: true,
src: [
'.tmp',
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/{,*/}*',
'!<%= yeoman.dist %>/.git{,*/}*'
]
}]
},
server: '.tmp'
},
// Add vendor prefixed styles
autoprefixer: {
options: {
browsers: ['last 1 version']
},
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '.tmp/styles/',
src: '{,*/}*.css',
dest: '.tmp/styles/'
}]
}
},
// Automatically inject Bower components into the app
wiredep: {
app: {
src: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/index.html'],
ignorePath: /\.\.\//
},
sass: {
src: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.{scss,sass}'],
ignorePath: /(\.\.\/){1,2}bower_components\//
}
},
// Compiles Sass to CSS and generates necessary files if requested
compass: {
options: {
sassDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles',
cssDir: '.tmp/styles',
generatedImagesDir: '.tmp/images/generated',
imagesDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/images',
javascriptsDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/scripts',
fontsDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/fonts',
importPath: './bower_components',
httpImagesPath: '/images',
httpGeneratedImagesPath: '/images/generated',
httpFontsPath: '/styles/fonts',
relativeAssets: false,
assetCacheBuster: false,
raw: 'Sass::Script::Number.precision = 10\n'
},
dist: {
options: {
generatedImagesDir: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images/generated'
}
},
server: {
options: {
debugInfo: true
}
}
},
// Renames files for browser caching purposes
filerev: {
dist: {
src: [
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js',
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/{,*/}*.css',
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/images/{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif,webp,svg}',
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/fonts/*'
]
}
},
// Reads HTML for usemin blocks to enable smart builds that automatically
// concat, minify and revision files. Creates configurations in memory so
// additional tasks can operate on them
useminPrepare: {
html: '<%= yeoman.app %>/index.html',
options: {
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
flow: {
html: {
steps: {
js: ['concat', 'uglifyjs'],
css: ['cssmin']
},
post: {}
}
}
}
},
// Performs rewrites based on filerev and the useminPrepare configuration
usemin: {
html: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>/{,*/}*.html'],
css: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/{,*/}*.css'],
options: {
assetsDirs: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>','<%= yeoman.dist %>/images']
}
},
// The following *-min tasks will produce minified files in the dist folder
// By default, your `index.html`'s <!-- Usemin block --> will take care of
// minification. These next options are pre-configured if you do not wish
// to use the Usemin blocks.
// cssmin: {
// dist: {
// files: {
// '<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/main.css': [
// '.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css'
// ]
// }
// }
// },
// uglify: {
// dist: {
// files: {
// '<%= yeoman.dist %>/scripts/scripts.js': [
// '<%= yeoman.dist %>/scripts/scripts.js'
// ]
// }
// }
// },
// concat: {
// dist: {}
// },
imagemin: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>/images',
src: '{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif}',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images'
}]
}
},
svgmin: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>/images',
src: '{,*/}*.svg',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images'
}]
}
},
htmlmin: {
dist: {
options: {
collapseWhitespace: true,
conservativeCollapse: true,
collapseBooleanAttributes: true,
removeCommentsFromCDATA: true,
removeOptionalTags: true
},
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
src: ['*.html', 'views/{,*/}*.html'],
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>'
}]
}
},
// ng-annotate tries to make the code safe for minification automatically
// by using the Angular long form for dependency injection.
ngAnnotate: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '.tmp/concat/scripts',
src: ['*.js', '!oldieshim.js'],
dest: '.tmp/concat/scripts'
}]
}
},
// Replace Google CDN references
cdnify: {
dist: {
html: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>/*.html']
}
},
// Copies remaining files to places other tasks can use
copy: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
dot: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
src: [
'*.{ico,png,txt}',
'.htaccess',
'*.html',
'views/{,*/}*.html',
'images/{,*/}*.{webp}',
'fonts/{,*/}*.*'
]
}, {
expand: true,
cwd: '.tmp/images',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images',
src: ['generated/*']
}, {
expand: true,
cwd: '.',
src: 'bower_components/bootstrap-sass-official/assets/fonts/bootstrap/*',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>'
}]
},
styles: {
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles',
dest: '.tmp/styles/',
src: '{,*/}*.css'
}
},
// Run some tasks in parallel to speed up the build process
concurrent: {
server: [
'compass:server'
],
test: [
'compass'
],
dist: [
'compass:dist',
'imagemin',
'svgmin'
]
},
// Test settings
karma: {
unit: {
configFile: 'test/karma.conf.js',
singleRun: true
}
}
});
grunt.registerTask('serve', 'Compile then start a connect web server', function (target) {
if (target === 'dist') {
return grunt.task.run(['build', 'connect:dist:keepalive']);
}
grunt.task.run([
'clean:server',
'wiredep',
'concurrent:server',
'autoprefixer',
'connect:livereload',
'watch'
]);
});
grunt.registerTask('server', 'DEPRECATED TASK. Use the "serve" task instead', function (target) {
grunt.log.warn('The `server` task has been deprecated. Use `grunt serve` to start a server.');
grunt.task.run(['serve:' + target]);
});
grunt.registerTask('test', [
'clean:server',
'concurrent:test',
'autoprefixer',
'connect:test'
// 'karma'
]);
grunt.registerTask('build', [
'clean:dist',
'wiredep',
'useminPrepare',
'concurrent:dist',
'autoprefixer',
'concat',
'ngAnnotate',
'copy:dist',
'cdnify',
'cssmin',
'uglify',
'filerev',
'usemin',
'htmlmin'
]);
grunt.registerTask('default', [
'newer:jshint',
'test',
'build'
]);
};
Notes
Just a note on what I am trying to do...
I have a php app, the folder structure looks like the one on top, in a sub folder (where I have my dev files) I started a new yeoman-angular app.
When I run grunt to build the dist, of course I don't want to create the dist in the subfolder used for dev (that is not public), and I don't want to create the dist and then copy the folder to the public folder. In this case it will not have the updated paths to styles/ and scripts/ and I have to manually update the paths.
So when I run grunt I want to create the dist in the public folder with the correct paths (in this case app/styles/ and app/scripts/).

No sure what your trying to do here. The app folder is the production folder by default and the dist folder is where your files get built into. So the relative paths makes sense when building.
You also shouldn't change anything in the dist folder as it will always change as you build.
Using the --force flag means your doing something wrong as your forcing grunt to void errors
Please upload your full grunt file so I can get a better understanding of the file setup

I've figured out to solve this problem by adding the base html tag in my index.html
<base href="/app">

grunt serve: concurrent:server aborts due to warnings

suddenly my projects stops working with grunt. Unfortunately, I haven't committed my changes for a while into git, so I can't tell whats different.
When I run grunt server --verbose, I get the following output (everything above ... passes with an OK):
...
Running "wiredep" task
Running "wiredep:app" (wiredep) task
Verifying property wiredep.app exists in config...OK
Files: app/index.html
Verifying property wiredep.app.src exists in config...OK
Running "wiredep:sass" (wiredep) task
Verifying property wiredep.sass exists in config...OK
Files: app/styles/analyzer.scss, app/styles/colors.scss, app/styles/login.scss, app/styles/main.scss, app/styles/shared.scss, app/styles/styles.scss, app/styles/tagsinput.scss
Verifying property wiredep.sass.src exists in config...OK
Running "concurrent:server" (concurrent) task
Verifying property concurrent.server exists in config...OK
Files: [no src] -> server
Options: limit=2
Warning: Use --force to continue.
Aborted due to warnings.
Execution Time (2014-06-24 08:34:05 UTC)
loading tasks 8ms 0%
serve 2ms 0%
clean:server 10ms 0%
wiredep:app 242ms ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 4%
wiredep:sass 17ms 0%
concurrent:server 5.3s ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 95%
Total 5.6s
So, grunt aborts when trying to execute the task concurrent:server. Inside this task, the compass:server task is executed (see the Gruntfile.js below). So, it must have something todo with compass, but I'm not sure if this line Files: [no src] -> server could give more hints to the problem.
This is my Gruntfile.js:
// Generated on 2014-06-16 using generator-angular 0.9.0-1
'use strict';
// # Globbing
// for performance reasons we're only matching one level down:
// 'test/spec/{,*/}*.js'
// use this if you want to recursively match all subfolders:
// 'test/spec/**/*.js'
module.exports = function (grunt) {
// Load grunt tasks automatically
require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt);
// Time how long tasks take. Can help when optimizing build times
require('time-grunt')(grunt);
// Configurable paths for the application
var appConfig = {
app: require('./bower.json').appPath || 'app',
dist: 'dist'
};
// Define the configuration for all the tasks
grunt.initConfig({
// Project settings
yeoman: appConfig,
// Watches files for changes and runs tasks based on the changed files
watch: {
bower: {
files: ['bower.json'],
tasks: ['wiredep']
},
js: {
files: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js'],
tasks: [],
options: {
livereload: '<%= connect.options.livereload %>'
}
},
jsTest: {
files: ['test/spec/{,*/}*.js'],
tasks: ['newer:jshint:test', 'newer:jshint:all', 'karma']
},
compass: {
files: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.{scss,sass}'],
tasks: ['compass:server', 'autoprefixer'],
options: {
spawn: false,
}
},
gruntfile: {
files: ['Gruntfile.js']
},
livereload: {
options: {
livereload: '<%= connect.options.livereload %>'
},
files: [
'<%= yeoman.app %>/{,*/}*.html',
'<%= yeoman.app %>/scripts/directives/**/*.html',
'.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css',
'<%= yeoman.app %>/images/{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif,webp,svg}'
]
}
},
// The actual grunt server settings
connect: {
options: {
port: 9000,
// Change this to '0.0.0.0' to access the server from outside.
hostname: 'localhost',
livereload: 35729
},
livereload: {
options: {
open: false,
middleware: function (connect) {
return [
connect.static('.tmp'),
connect().use(
'/bower_components',
connect.static('./bower_components')
),
connect.static(appConfig.app)
];
}
}
},
test: {
options: {
port: 9001,
middleware: function (connect) {
return [
connect.static('.tmp'),
connect.static('test'),
connect().use(
'/bower_components',
connect.static('./bower_components')
),
connect.static(appConfig.app)
];
}
}
},
dist: {
options: {
open: false,
base: '<%= yeoman.dist %>'
}
}
},
// Make sure code styles are up to par and there are no obvious mistakes
jshint: {
options: {
jshintrc: '.jshintrc',
reporter: require('jshint-stylish')
},
all: {
src: [
'Gruntfile.js',
'<%= yeoman.app %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js'
]
},
test: {
options: {
jshintrc: 'test/.jshintrc'
},
src: ['test/spec/{,*/}*.js']
}
},
// Empties folders to start fresh
clean: {
dist: {
files: [{
dot: true,
src: [
'.tmp',
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/{,*/}*',
'!<%= yeoman.dist %>/.git*'
]
}]
},
server: '.tmp'
},
// Add vendor prefixed styles
autoprefixer: {
options: {
browsers: ['last 1 version']
},
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '.tmp/styles/',
src: '{,*/}*.css',
dest: '.tmp/styles/'
}]
}
},
// Automatically inject Bower components into the app
wiredep: {
app: {
src: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/index.html'],
ignorePath: new RegExp('^<%= yeoman.app %>/|../')
},
sass: {
src: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.{scss,sass}'],
ignorePath: /(\.\.\/){1,2}bower_components\//
}
},
// Compiles Sass to CSS and generates necessary files if requested
compass: {
options: {
sassDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles',
cssDir: '.tmp/styles',
generatedImagesDir: '.tmp/images/generated',
imagesDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/images',
javascriptsDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/scripts',
fontsDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/fonts',
importPath: './bower_components',
httpImagesPath: '/images',
httpGeneratedImagesPath: '/images/generated',
httpFontsPath: '/styles/fonts',
relativeAssets: false,
assetCacheBuster: false,
raw: 'Sass::Script::Number.precision = 10\n'
},
dist: {
options: {
generatedImagesDir: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images/generated'
}
},
server: {
options: {
debugInfo: true
}
}
},
// Renames files for browser caching purposes
filerev: {
dist: {
src: [
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js',
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/{,*/}*.css',
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/images/{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif,webp,svg}',
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/fonts/*'
]
}
},
// Reads HTML for usemin blocks to enable smart builds that automatically
// concat, minify and revision files. Creates configurations in memory so
// additional tasks can operate on them
useminPrepare: {
html: '<%= yeoman.app %>/index.html',
options: {
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
flow: {
html: {
steps: {
js: ['concat', 'uglifyjs'],
css: ['cssmin']
},
post: {}
}
}
}
},
// Performs rewrites based on filerev and the useminPrepare configuration
usemin: {
html: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>/{,*/}*.html'],
css: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/{,*/}*.css'],
options: {
assetsDirs: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>','<%= yeoman.dist %>/images']
}
},
// The following *-min tasks will produce minified files in the dist folder
// By default, your `index.html`'s <!-- Usemin block --> will take care of
// minification. These next options are pre-configured if you do not wish
// to use the Usemin blocks.
// cssmin: {
// dist: {
// files: {
// '<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/main.css': [
// '.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css'
// ]
// }
// }
// },
// uglify: {
// dist: {
// files: {
// '<%= yeoman.dist %>/scripts/scripts.js': [
// '<%= yeoman.dist %>/scripts/scripts.js'
// ]
// }
// }
// },
// concat: {
// dist: {}
// },
imagemin: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>/images',
src: '{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif}',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images'
}]
}
},
svgmin: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>/images',
src: '{,*/}*.svg',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images'
}]
}
},
htmlmin: {
dist: {
options: {
collapseWhitespace: true,
conservativeCollapse: true,
collapseBooleanAttributes: true,
removeCommentsFromCDATA: true,
removeOptionalTags: true
},
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
src: ['*.html', 'views/{,*/}*.html'],
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>'
}]
}
},
// ngmin tries to make the code safe for minification automatically by
// using the Angular long form for dependency injection. It doesn't work on
// things like resolve or inject so those have to be done manually.
ngmin: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '.tmp/concat/scripts',
src: '*.js',
dest: '.tmp/concat/scripts'
}]
}
},
// Replace Google CDN references
cdnify: {
dist: {
html: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>/*.html']
}
},
// Copies remaining files to places other tasks can use
copy: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
dot: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
src: [
'*.{ico,png,txt}',
'.htaccess',
'*.html',
'views/{,*/}*.html',
'images/{,*/}*.{webp}',
'fonts/*'
]
}, {
expand: true,
cwd: '.tmp/images',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images',
src: ['generated/*']
}, {
expand: true,
cwd: '.',
src: 'bower_components/bootstrap-sass-official/vendor/assets/fonts/bootstrap/*',
dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>'
}]
},
styles: {
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles',
dest: '.tmp/styles/',
src: '{,*/}*.css'
}
},
// Run some tasks in parallel to speed up the build process
concurrent: {
server: [
'compass:server'
],
test: [
'compass'
],
dist: [
'compass:dist',
'imagemin',
'svgmin'
]
},
// Test settings
karma: {
unit: {
configFile: 'test/karma.conf.js',
singleRun: false
}
}
});
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-sass');
grunt.registerTask('serve', 'Compile then start a connect web server', function (target) {
if (target === 'dist') {
return grunt.task.run(['build', 'connect:dist:keepalive']);
}
grunt.task.run([
'clean:server',
'wiredep',
'concurrent:server',
'autoprefixer',
'connect:livereload',
'watch'
]);
});
grunt.registerTask('server', 'DEPRECATED TASK. Use the "serve" task instead', function (target) {
grunt.log.warn('The `server` task has been deprecated. Use `grunt serve` to start a server.');
grunt.task.run(['serve:' + target]);
});
grunt.registerTask('test', [
'clean:server',
'autoprefixer',
'connect:test',
'karma'
]);
grunt.registerTask('build', [
'clean:dist',
'wiredep',
'useminPrepare',
'concurrent:dist',
'autoprefixer',
'concat',
'ngmin',
'copy:dist',
'cdnify',
'cssmin',
'uglify',
'filerev',
'usemin',
'htmlmin'
]);
grunt.registerTask('default', [
'newer:jshint',
'test',
'build'
]);
};
I generated the project with the yo angular generator. And this is my environment:
node -v: v0.10.25
ruby -v: ruby 2.1.2p95 (2014-05-08 revision 45877) [x86_64-darwin13.0]
yo -v: 1.1.2
gem list:
* LOCAL GEMS *
bigdecimal (1.2.4)
bundler (1.6.2)
bundler-unload (1.0.2)
chunky_png (1.3.1)
compass (0.12.6)
executable-hooks (1.3.1)
fssm (0.2.10)
gem-wrappers (1.2.4)
io-console (0.4.2)
json (1.8.1)
minitest (4.7.5)
psych (2.0.5)
rake (10.1.0)
rdoc (4.1.0)
rubygems-bundler (1.4.3)
rvm (1.11.3.9)
sass (3.3.8, 3.2.19)
test-unit (2.1.2.0)
grunt --verison: grunt-cli v0.1.13, grunt v0.4.5
Mac OS X 10.9
This is my package.json:
{
"name": "project1",
"version": "0.0.0",
"dependencies": {},
"devDependencies": {
"grunt": "^0.4.1",
"grunt-autoprefixer": "^0.7.3",
"grunt-concurrent": "^0.5.0",
"grunt-contrib-clean": "^0.5.0",
"grunt-contrib-coffee": "^0.10.1",
"grunt-contrib-compass": "~0.8.0",
"grunt-contrib-concat": "^0.4.0",
"grunt-contrib-connect": "^0.7.1",
"grunt-contrib-copy": "^0.5.0",
"grunt-contrib-cssmin": "^0.9.0",
"grunt-contrib-htmlmin": "^0.3.0",
"grunt-contrib-imagemin": "^0.7.0",
"grunt-contrib-jshint": "^0.10.0",
"grunt-contrib-uglify": "^0.4.0",
"grunt-contrib-watch": "^0.6.1",
"grunt-filerev": "^0.2.1",
"grunt-google-cdn": "^0.4.0",
"grunt-newer": "^0.7.0",
"grunt-ngmin": "^0.0.3",
"grunt-svgmin": "^0.4.0",
"grunt-usemin": "^2.1.1",
"grunt-wiredep": "^1.7.0",
"jshint-stylish": "^0.2.0",
"load-grunt-tasks": "^0.4.0",
"time-grunt": "^0.3.1",
"coffee-script": "~1.7.1",
"grunt-karma": "~0.8.3",
"karma-phantomjs-launcher": "~0.1.4",
"karma": "~0.12.16",
"karma-jasmine": "~0.1.5",
"karma-coffee-preprocessor": "~0.2.1",
"karma-chrome-launcher": "~0.1.4",
"karma-script-launcher": "~0.1.0",
"karma-firefox-launcher": "~0.1.3",
"karma-safari-launcher": "~0.1.1",
"karma-ng-html2js-preprocessor": "~0.1.0",
"karma-junit-reporter": "~0.2.2",
"grunt-ng-constant": "~0.5.0",
"grunt-bowercopy": "~1.0.1",
"karma-coverage": "~0.2.4",
"grunt-protractor-runner": "~1.0.0",
"karma-jasmine-given": "~0.1.1",
"grunt-sass": "~0.13.1"
},
"engines": {
"node": ">=0.10.0"
},
"scripts": {
"test": "grunt test"
}
}
And this is my bower.json:
{
"name": "project1",
"version": "0.0.0",
"dependencies": {
"angular": "1.3.0-beta.11",
"json3": "~3.3.1",
"es5-shim": "~3.1.0",
"jquery": "~1.11.1",
"bootstrap-sass-official": "~3.1.1",
"bootstrap": "~3.1.1",
"angular-resource": "1.3.0-beta.11",
"angular-cookies": "1.3.0-beta.11",
"angular-sanitize": "1.3.0-beta.11",
"angular-animate": "1.3.0-beta.11",
"angular-touch": "1.3.0-beta.11",
"angular-route": "1.3.0-beta.11",
"font-awesome": "~4.1",
"underscore": "~1.6.0"
},
"devDependencies": {
"angular-mocks": "1.3.0-beta.11",
"angular-scenario": "1.3.0-beta.11"
},
"appPath": "app"
}

Stupid me!
For anybody encountering the same issue:
I had some import errors in my SCSS files. During the live reload of grunt, it would tell you that there is something wrong. But during the startup of grunt serve it just breaks and tells you nothing. So, check your imports and syntax of your SCSS files.

It's import in SCSS files. Try
grunt serve --force
This may force the build process to continue even though your SCSS fails to compile. The end result is you'll start the grunt server and it'll tell you exactly where the build process failed.

Actually, my SCSS has no grammar faults, this happened because I installed compass globally (npm -g), while it needed to be installed as a Ruby gem:
gem install compass

I am not an expert but I find that once the local server is running it will allow lint errors in scss or whatever, then once you stop the server and try to restart it will give this error until you fix the scss errors. You can use grunt check and then just resolve them and try again. 9/10 this is why my server wont restart.

Configuring grunt-uncss with Yeoman's generator-webapp

I am trying to configure grunt-uncss with a Sass Bootstrap scaffold made with Yeoman's generator-webapp. I've found this discussion that comes close to what I'm trying to do: https://github.com/addyosmani/grunt-uncss/issues/75
I tried to change and apply this to my situation but Grunt is giving me the following error:
...
Running "uncss:dist" (uncss) task
File .tmp/styles/main.css created: 121.77 kB → 7.24 kB
Running "cssmin:dist" (cssmin) task
File dist/styles/main.css created: 7.24 kB → 4.8 kB
Running "cssmin:generated" (cssmin) task
>> Destination not written because minified CSS was empty.
File dist/styles/main.css created: 121.77 kB → 96.74 kB
...
Gruntfile.js
// Generated on 2014-06-16 using generator-webapp 0.4.9
'use strict';
// # Globbing
// for performance reasons we're only matching one level down:
// 'test/spec/{,*/}*.js'
// use this if you want to recursively match all subfolders:
// 'test/spec/**/*.js'
module.exports = function (grunt) {
// Load grunt tasks automatically
require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt);
// Time how long tasks take. Can help when optimizing build times
require('time-grunt')(grunt);
// Configurable paths
var config = {
app: 'app',
dist: 'dist'
};
// Define the configuration for all the tasks
grunt.initConfig({
// Project settings
config: config,
// Watches files for changes and runs tasks based on the changed files
watch: {
bower: {
files: ['bower.json'],
tasks: ['bowerInstall']
},
js: {
files: ['<%= config.app %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js'],
tasks: ['jshint'],
options: {
livereload: true
}
},
jstest: {
files: ['test/spec/{,*/}*.js'],
tasks: ['test:watch']
},
gruntfile: {
files: ['Gruntfile.js']
},
sass: {
files: ['<%= config.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.{scss,sass}'],
tasks: ['sass:server', 'autoprefixer']
},
styles: {
files: ['<%= config.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.css'],
tasks: ['newer:copy:styles', 'autoprefixer']
},
livereload: {
options: {
livereload: '<%= connect.options.livereload %>'
},
files: [
'<%= config.app %>/{,*/}*.html',
'.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css',
'<%= config.app %>/images/{,*/}*'
]
}
},
// The actual grunt server settings
connect: {
options: {
port: 9000,
open: true,
livereload: 35729,
// Change this to '0.0.0.0' to access the server from outside
hostname: '0.0.0.0'
},
livereload: {
options: {
middleware: function(connect) {
return [
connect.static('.tmp'),
connect().use('/bower_components', connect.static('./bower_components')),
connect.static(config.app)
];
}
}
},
test: {
options: {
open: false,
port: 9001,
middleware: function(connect) {
return [
connect.static('.tmp'),
connect.static('test'),
connect().use('/bower_components', connect.static('./bower_components')),
connect.static(config.app)
];
}
}
},
dist: {
options: {
base: '<%= config.dist %>',
livereload: false
}
}
},
// Empties folders to start fresh
clean: {
dist: {
files: [{
dot: true,
src: [
'.tmp',
'<%= config.dist %>/*',
'!<%= config.dist %>/.git*'
]
}]
},
server: '.tmp'
},
// Make sure code styles are up to par and there are no obvious mistakes
jshint: {
options: {
jshintrc: '.jshintrc',
reporter: require('jshint-stylish')
},
all: [
'Gruntfile.js',
'<%= config.app %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js',
'!<%= config.app %>/scripts/vendor/*',
'test/spec/{,*/}*.js'
]
},
// Mocha testing framework configuration options
mocha: {
all: {
options: {
run: true,
urls: ['http://<%= connect.test.options.hostname %>:<%= connect.test.options.port %>/index.html']
}
}
},
// Compiles Sass to CSS and generates necessary files if requested
sass: {
options: {
includePaths: [
'bower_components'
]
},
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= config.app %>/styles',
src: ['*.scss'],
dest: '.tmp/styles',
ext: '.css'
}]
},
server: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= config.app %>/styles',
src: ['*.scss'],
dest: '.tmp/styles',
ext: '.css'
}]
}
},
// Add vendor prefixed styles
autoprefixer: {
options: {
browsers: ['last 1 version']
},
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '.tmp/styles/',
src: '{,*/}*.css',
dest: '.tmp/styles/'
}]
}
},
// Automatically inject Bower components into the HTML file
bowerInstall: {
app: {
src: ['<%= config.app %>/index.html'],
exclude: ['bower_components/bootstrap-sass-official/vendor/assets/javascripts/bootstrap.js']
},
sass: {
src: ['<%= config.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.{scss,sass}']
}
},
// Renames files for browser caching purposes
rev: {
dist: {
files: {
src: [
'<%= config.dist %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js',
'<%= config.dist %>/styles/{,*/}*.css',
'<%= config.dist %>/images/{,*/}*.*',
'<%= config.dist %>/styles/fonts/{,*/}*.*',
'<%= config.dist %>/*.{ico,png}'
]
}
}
},
// Reads HTML for usemin blocks to enable smart builds that automatically
// concat, minify and revision files. Creates configurations in memory so
// additional tasks can operate on them
useminPrepare: {
options: {
dest: '<%= config.dist %>'
},
html: '<%= config.app %>/index.html'
},
// Performs rewrites based on rev and the useminPrepare configuration
usemin: {
options: {
assetsDirs: ['<%= config.dist %>', '<%= config.dist %>/images']
},
html: ['<%= config.dist %>/{,*/}*.html'],
css: ['<%= config.dist %>/styles/{,*/}*.css']
},
// The following *-min tasks produce minified files in the dist folder
imagemin: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= config.app %>/images',
src: '{,*/}*.{gif,jpeg,jpg,png}',
dest: '<%= config.dist %>/images'
}]
}
},
svgmin: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= config.app %>/images',
src: '{,*/}*.svg',
dest: '<%= config.dist %>/images'
}]
}
},
htmlmin: {
dist: {
options: {
collapseBooleanAttributes: true,
collapseWhitespace: true,
removeAttributeQuotes: true,
removeCommentsFromCDATA: true,
removeEmptyAttributes: true,
removeOptionalTags: true,
removeRedundantAttributes: true,
useShortDoctype: true
},
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: '<%= config.dist %>',
src: '{,*/}*.html',
dest: '<%= config.dist %>'
}]
}
},
// By default, your `index.html`'s <!-- Usemin block --> will take care of
// minification. These next options are pre-configured if you do not wish
// to use the Usemin blocks.
// cssmin: {
// dist: {
// files: {
// '<%= config.dist %>/styles/main.css': [
// '.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css',
// '<%= config.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.css'
// ]
// }
// }
// },
// uglify: {
// dist: {
// files: {
// '<%= config.dist %>/scripts/scripts.js': [
// '<%= config.dist %>/scripts/scripts.js'
// ]
// }
// }
// },
// concat: {
// dist: {}
// },
// Copies remaining files to places other tasks can use
copy: {
dist: {
files: [{
expand: true,
dot: true,
cwd: '<%= config.app %>',
dest: '<%= config.dist %>',
src: [
'*.{ico,png,txt}',
'.htaccess',
'images/{,*/}*.webp',
'{,*/}*.html',
'styles/fonts/{,*/}*.*'
]
}, {
expand: true,
dot: true,
cwd: '.',
src: ['bower_components/bootstrap-sass-official/vendor/assets/fonts/bootstrap/*.*'],
dest: '<%= config.dist %>'
}]
},
styles: {
expand: true,
dot: true,
cwd: '<%= config.app %>/styles',
dest: '.tmp/styles/',
src: '{,*/}*.css'
}
},
// Run some tasks in parallel to speed up build process
concurrent: {
server: [
'sass:server',
'copy:styles'
],
test: [
'copy:styles'
],
dist: [
'sass',
'copy:styles',
'imagemin',
'svgmin'
]
},
autoshot: {
dist: {
options: {
path: 'screenshots/',
remote : {
files: [
{ src: 'http://localhost:<%= connect.options.port %>', dest: 'app.jpg'}
]
},
viewport: ['320x480','480x320','384x640','640x384','602x963','963x602','600x960','960x600','800x1280','1280x800','768x1024','1024x768']
}
}
},
uncss: {
dist: {
options: {
stylesheets: ['../.tmp/styles/main.css']
},
files: {
'.tmp/styles/main.css': ['app/index.html']
}
}
}
});
grunt.registerTask('serve', function (target) {
if (target === 'dist') {
return grunt.task.run(['build', 'connect:dist:keepalive']);
}
grunt.task.run([
'clean:server',
'concurrent:server',
'autoprefixer',
'connect:livereload',
'watch'
]);
});
grunt.registerTask('server', function (target) {
grunt.log.warn('The `server` task has been deprecated. Use `grunt serve` to start a server.');
grunt.task.run([target ? ('serve:' + target) : 'serve']);
});
grunt.registerTask('test', function (target) {
if (target !== 'watch') {
grunt.task.run([
'clean:server',
'concurrent:test',
'autoprefixer'
]);
}
grunt.task.run([
'connect:test',
'mocha'
]);
});
grunt.registerTask('build', [
'clean:dist',
'useminPrepare',
'concurrent:dist',
'autoprefixer',
'concat',
'uncss',
'cssmin',
'uglify',
'copy:dist',
'rev',
'usemin',
'htmlmin'
]);
grunt.registerTask('default', [
'newer:jshint',
'test',
'build'
]);
grunt.registerTask('screenshots', [
'clean:server',
'concurrent:server',
'connect:livereload',
'autoshot'
]);
grunt.registerTask('build-uncss', [
'build',
'uncss'
]);
};
I understand it's an issue with the order of events for all the grunt tasks ran with "grunt", but I can't find the point that breaks the process. What am I missing here?

For this particular situation, changing:
files: { '.tmp/styles/main.css': ['app/index.html'] }
to...
files: { '.tmp/concat/styles/main.css': ['app/index.html'] }
after adding tmp: '.tmp' to var config = {...}
var config = {
app: 'app',
dist: 'dist',
tmp: '.tmp'
};
fixes the issue.
The "dist" now folder contains a minified, revisioned and uncss'd stylesheet. Just what I needed.

Just came across this question while trying to resolve the same issue. In case anyone else is still facing this, the usemin block in your index.html overrides the cssmin grunt task, i.e.
<!-- build:css({.tmp,client}) styles/main.css -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/main.css" media="all" type='text/css'>
<!-- endbuild -->
Remove the "build" comments, leaving:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/main.css" media="all" type='text/css'>
And configure the cssmin task in your Gruntfile.js. For me I also had to rewrite my concat task due to multiple stylesheets.
My sample:
cssmin: {
generated: {
files: {
'<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/main.css': [
'.tmp/concat/styles/{,*/}*.css'
]
}
}
},
concat: {
css: {
files: {
'.tmp/concat/styles/main.css': ['.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css']
}
}
},
uncss: {
dist: {
files: {
'.tmp/concat/styles/main.css': ['<%= yeoman.app %>/*.html', '<%= yeoman.app %>/views/**/*.html']
},
options: {
stylesheets: ['../.tmp/concat/styles/main.css']
}
}
}
If you only have one main.css, leave out the 'concat' task and concat prefixes for file paths.
The build task:
grunt.registerTask('build', [
'clean:dist',
'wiredep',
'useminPrepare',
'concurrent:dist',
'autoprefixer',
'concat',
'ngAnnotate',
'copy:dist',
'cdnify',
'uncss',
'cssmin',
'uglify',
'filerev',
'usemin',
'htmlmin'
]);
Not sure if it's the best way, hope this helps somebody!

Addy Osmani, author of the grunt-uncss plugin, has written a yeoman generator incorporating the plugin.
$ yo webapp-uncss
https://github.com/addyosmani/generator-webapp-uncss

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