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POMinify some files, combine all, with Grunt.JS
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copied!<p>I'm moving a dev team away from Chirpy, an add-in for visual studio, for combination & minification of CSS/JS files, over to grunt as part of a workflow automation process. </p> <p>In chirpy, the config looks something like this (truncated for brevity): </p> <pre><code><FileGroup Name="scripts.combined.js" Minify="both"> <File Path="forms.js" Minify="false" /> <File Path="cookie_monster.js" Minify="true" /> ... </FileGroup> </code></pre> <p>So in this abridged case, I have 2 files. One needs to be minified, the other doesn't. (according to the folks here, minifying forms.js breaks functionality, and I haven't been allocated time to fix that yet).</p> <p>In <code>grunt</code>, I need to run a minification task on <em>some</em> of the files in this list, but not on others. I then need to run a <code>concat</code> task on all files (minified or otherwise). </p> <p>Given that uglifyJS needs a <code>dest</code> set to output the minified file, do I simply set this to something like <code>temp.min.js</code>, and in my concat task, use this file to build my <code>scripts.combined.js</code> file [comprised of both minified & unminified files], and use grunt clean to remove the <code>temp.min.js</code> file? </p> <p>Is there a better way to do this? </p> <p>[EDIT TO ADD] I'm also concerned about potential load-order conflicts. The current tool is configured as both "combine all of these files", with a flag on each file indicating whether or not it should be minified. I'm not sure how to replicate this workflow w/ grunt</p>

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