Running grunt task with api, without command line

Question

I want to create and run grunt task in node.js code for test use.

var foo = function() {
    var grunt = require(\"grunt\");

    var options = {\"blahblah\"         


        

Answer 1

You can. I don't know why anyone would need to do this as currently Grunt is a command line tool. WARNING: I don't recommend running Grunt in this way. But here it is:

var grunt = require('grunt');

// hack to avoid loading a Gruntfile
// You can skip this and just use a Gruntfile instead
grunt.task.init = function() {};

// Init config
grunt.initConfig({
  jshint: {
    all: ['index.js']
  }
});

// Register your own tasks
grunt.registerTask('mytask', function() {
  grunt.log.write('Ran my task.');
});

// Load tasks from npm
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-jshint');

// Finally run the tasks, with options and a callback when we're done
grunt.tasks(['mytask', 'jshint'], {}, function() {
  grunt.log.ok('Done running tasks.');
});