Automate npm and bower install with grunt

Question

I have a node / angular project that uses npm for backend dependency management and bower for frontend dependency management. I\'d like to use a grunt task to do both install co

Answer 1

FYI, here is where i am for now.

You could also have taken the problem another way, i.e. let npm handle the execution of bower, and ultimately let grunt handle npm. See Use bower with heroku.

grunt.registerTask('install', 'install the backend and frontend dependencies', function() {
    var async = require('async');
    var exec = require('child_process').exec;
    var done = this.async();

    var runCmd = function(item, callback) {
        process.stdout.write('running "' + item + '"...\n');
        var cmd = exec(item);
        cmd.stdout.on('data', function (data) {
            grunt.log.writeln(data);
        });
        cmd.stderr.on('data', function (data) {
            grunt.log.errorlns(data);
        });
        cmd.on('exit', function (code) {
            if (code !== 0) throw new Error(item + ' failed');
            grunt.log.writeln('done\n');
            callback();
        });
    };

    async.series({
        npm: function(callback){
            runCmd('npm install', callback);
        },
        bower: function(callback){
            runCmd('bower install', callback);  
        }
    },
    function(err, results) {
        if (err) done(false);
        done();
    });
});