Laravel 4 + Grunt Asset Workflow Package

Contents

• What this package includes and can do?
• Installation
• How to use?
• Issues - how to help

What this package includes and can do?

This package is design to help with asset management and front-end workflow when developing in Laravel 4.

The package can do the following:

• compile and minify CSS
• compile and minify JavaScript
• compile LESS
• compile SASS
• compile Stylus
• build all asset group with one command
• Live reload (watches asset files for changes and reloads the browser)

Installation

To install the 'Laravel 4 + Grunt Asset Worklow Package' simply add the following to your composer.json "require-dev" array:

"JasonMortonNZ/LaravelGrunt": "dev-master"

How to use?

So, how do you use this package? Well we've tried to make it as simple as possible. There's just 3 commands:

grunt:setup

The grunt:setup command is used to setup your requuired asset + grunt workflow. You use the command as follows:

php artisan grunt:setup

The command will ask you a selection of questions, and the rest is all done for you.

grunt:build

The grunt:build command will run the grunt task runner and lint, compile, minify all your files, according to how you want things done. You use the command as follows:

php artisan grunt:build

grunt:watch

The grunt:watch command is used to start a the grunt file watcher. This will watch for any changes made to your front-end workflow files (CSS, JavaScript, LESS, SASS & Stylus), and will then auto-reload your web browser to reflect those changes. You can use the command as follows:

php artisan grunt:watch

Note: That live reload will only work if you have a compatible browser (Chrome & Firefox) with the LiveReload plugin installed.

Issues - how to help?

If you find any bugs, issues errors or believe we could add further useful functionality. Let us know via the github issues page for this project.