grunt-sencha-build

Grunt plugin to use as a wrapper to Sencha CMD.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-sencha-build --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-sencha-build');

Sencha CMD

Sencha CMD is required for this plugin. In most cases it's installed as the command line app 'sencha'. For more details on Sencha CMD, visit http://docs-origin.sencha.com/cmd/3.1.2/#!/guide/command

Supported Commands

Currently only 'sencha app build' and 'sencha compile' are supported via specific targets. You can use the generic 'sencha' task to run any task and pass in command details via the command array ( see below ). More specific commands are coming and if there are some in particular you have use for, please let me know and I'll add them.

The "sencha_app_build" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named sencha_app_build to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  // Simple Example
  sencha_app_build: {
    testing_build: {
    	environment: 'testing'
	}
  }
  // Full Example
  sencha_app_build: {
  	options: {
  		cwd: 'your app path',
  		cmdPath: 'path to Sencha CMD executable'
  	}
  	testing_custom_build: {
  		environment: 'testing'
  		commandOptions: '-d somefolder'
  	}
  }
})

Options

options.cwd

Type: String Default value: ``

The path to your app you want to work with, defaults to the current directory

options.cmdPath

Type: String Default value: sencha

The full path to the Sencha CMD executable, defaults to 'sencha'

Properties

environment

Type: String

The type of build environment to use, options are production|testing|native|package

Usage Examples

Simple Package Example

Builds app in current directory using the testing environment

grunt.initConfig({
  sencha_app_build: {
    testing_build: {
		environment: 'testing'
	}
  }
})

Build different directory with different output directory

Package up the /myappdir into /webroot using the production environment

grunt.initConfig({
  sencha_app_build: {
    options: {
    	cwd: '/myappdir'
    },
    custom_build: {
		environment: 'production'
        commandOptions: '-d /webroot'
	}
  }
})

The "sencha_compile" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named sencha_compile to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig(). This task will run the sencha cmd compile target. See the Sencha CMD documentation for additional options.

grunt.initConfig({
  // Simple Example
  sencha_compile: {
    testing_build: {
        params: [
            "page -i index.html -o output.html"
        ]
	}
  }
})

Properties

params

Type: Array Default value: ``

An array of parameters. If you prefer you can also just make them as one string in the array like above.

The generic "sencha" task

Overview

Any task that Sencha CMD supports can be achieved by this grunt task. It just takes the command from grunt's config.

grunt.initConfig({
  // Simple Example
  sencha: {
    concat: {
        command: [
            "fs concat -to=output.js input1.js input2.js input3.js"
        ]
	}
  }
})

Properties

command

Type: Array Default value: ``

An array of command lines. If you prefer you can also just make them as one string in the array like above.