grunt-prepare-install

Install runtime dependencies to prepare for packaging.

Equivalent to running

cd /my/target/dir && npm install $OLDPWD

This is useful if you want to create a binary tarball or system package (rpm, deb) of your package for great installation sanity. Because you really don't want to be downloading from untrusted sources on your production servers, do you? Of course you don't.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-prepare-install --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks("grunt-prepare-install");

The "prepare_install" task

Overview

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

grunt.initConfig({
    prepare_install: {
        options: {
            // options go here.
        }
    },
})

Options

options.tmpDir

Type: String Default value: "tmp"

Path to a scratch directory.

options.packageRoot

Type: String Default value: tmpDir + "/package-root"

The base directory where the module is installed.

options.cacheDir

Type: String Default value: tmpDir + "/npm-cache"

Where the npm cache is stored. This should be separate from your user- or system-wide cache, to work around dependency resolution problems with npm.

options.installPrefix

Type: String Default value: "."

Path under packageRoot where the module will be installed. For example, if you use /usr/local, your module will be installed to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/my-module and any binaries (as configured in your package.json) will be put in /usr/local/bin.

Usage Example

This will install your module into tmp/package-root/usr/local.

grunt.initConfig({ prepare_install: { options: { installPrefix: "/usr/local" } }, })

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 npm test.

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