grunt-sqsp

Grunt-based utilities for Squarespace themes, specifically deployment and internationalization. Developed in conjunction with bighuman.com

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt 0.4.x

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-sqsp --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-sqsp');

Workflow

Squarespace has git endpoints for deployment of themes. Since these are also exposed via FTP, they are not a good "definitive" git repository. The idea with this toolset is to keep your theme code on GitHub or something similar, and deploy via an equivalent of git push --force. This also allows you to keep Grunt configs and other meta-data in git while being outside of your theme.

The current working directory's theme is built and pushed, regadless of the state in git, etc. So you can make a small edit, save, and deploy right away.

In you Gruntfile, you can configure multiple targets, e.g. staging and your live site. For each target, this library exposes two tasks: build and deploy. Simply calling grunt sqsp:target will build first and then deploy.

The "sqsp:target:build" task

The build task creates a directory called ./build-{target}/, with the compiled contents of ./theme/. The build directory is wiped first if it exists.

The "sqsp:target:deploy" task

The deploy task creates a git repository in the build directory for the target, commits everything as an --orphan commit, and pushes (--force) to the Squarespace remote as configured. Note that the git history on Squarespace will not include the actual deploy history.

EJS and i18n

Files without .ejs are copied from ./theme/ into ./build-{target}/ as-is.

Any files ending with .ejs in the theme are copied for each locale and compiled using target- and locale-specific config variables. .ejs endings are stripped when the compiled files are saved into ./build/. For example, you would want a different region site.region per locale.

TODO - explain example config + i18n + navigations

This part of grunt-sqsp is still in flux and might move to another repo, but your template.conf.ejs file can have layouts and navigations filled out by grunt-sqsp.

"layouts" : <%- sqspLayouts %>,
"navigations" : <%- sqspNavigations %>,