Scripting Grunt-Init

[mkroehnert]

Bower supports usage through a public API.
It would be great to have the same capabilities for grunt-init.
I would like to use grunt-init from inside another program which would include enhancing the search path for template directories.

[auscaster]

@vladikoff this should be pretty straight forward. Is there anything preventing this, and is it something you would like to incorporate?

[vladikoff]

@sourcey feel free to experiment with stuff!

[auscaster]

It seems like the only thing preventing this is that grunt.js needs to expose a runTasks method or similar which can be called programatically... I'll investigate further...

[auscaster]

Created new issue and PR via gruntjs/grunt#1108

[mkroehnert]

Hi @auscaster,
thank you very much for working on this issue.

I had a look at the pull request you opened but did not fully understand how it would work with using grunt-init from within JS programs.
Since I I'd like to prevent you from doing unnecessary work and to clarify what I had in mind I created a code snippet of how I would like to use grunt-init in a custom project:

var gruntInit = require('grunt-init');

gruntInit.init('template-name', { template-path: 'path/to/custom/location', otherParameter: value } )
.on('end', function (installed) {
    console.log(installed);
});

The .on('end', ...) stuff is taken from the bower example but something similar might be helpful.

[auscaster]

@mkroehnert it seems like I misunderstood the exact issue you were talking about, but all was not in vain since I was able to get grunt to work directly from JS whereas before it wouldn't. Anyway thanks for clarifying the issue, and I'll take another look when time permits.

[mkroehnert]

@auscaster no problem.
Upon second look I got what your proposed patch is about.
It seems like this is also a nice addition to Grunt itself.