Goez Laravel 4 + Grunt Asset Workflow

This package isn't stable for production. Testing and bug reporting are welcome.

Features

• Includes Compass, RequireJS. (References to generator-webapp of Yeoman.)
• Helper for Laravel View.

Installation

1. Add the following line to your composer.json "require-dev" array:

   "goez/laravel-grunt": "dev-master"

2. Run composer update --dev in your terminal.

3. Add the following line to the end of you app/config.php "providers array":

   'Goez\LaravelGrunt\LaravelGruntServiceProvider',

4. Run the following command to add the configuration file to your app/config/packages directory:

   php artisan grunt:config

5. You can configure the path of assets, and published files. This configuration file is located in your project's config directory, as below:

   • app/config/packages/goez/laravel-grunt/config.php
   • app/config/packages/goez/laravel-grunt/local/config.php

6. Finally, run the following command to generate all metadata files and install packages in your app:

   php artisan grunt:setup

Note 1: You can edit the package.json, bower.json, Grunfile.js directly after they are generated.

Note 2: You must rerun grunt:config and grunt:setup after you update this package with composer.

Commands

You can use bower and grunt command to manage your assets.

• bower to list all commands of Bower.
• grunt --help to list all commands of Grunt.

Assets in view template

You can use the 'grunt_asset' helper to get asset url. Here are examples on blade template:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ grunt_asset('styles/hello.css') }}"/>
<script src="{{ grunt_asset('styles/hello.css') }}"></script>

or:

{{ HTML::style(grunt_asset('scripts/hello.js')) }}
{{ HTML::script(grunt_asset('scripts/hello.js')) }}

Bugs Report

Please report the bugs that you found to Issus page of this package.

Contributors

• Jace Ju : GitHub

Original Contributors

This package is base on JasonMortonNZ / laravel-grunt.

Thanks to:

• Jason Morton : Github | Twitter @JasonMortonNZ
• Thomas Clarkson : Github | Twitter @thomasclarkson9