An example of grunt build for hierarchical compass/sass structure
The Grunt build can support any kind of project structure for css and js in producing their minified artifacts. In this example, we have a number of parallel projects and their common css that lives adjacent to them. The css will be generated from sass files.
After installing latest git and node.js, run following command to install grunt.js
> npm install -g grunt-cli
sass and compass installations depend on ruby installation. Once ruby is installed, you can run following commands for sass and compass installations.
> gem update --system
> gem install sass
> gem install compass
Before starting grunt build, make sure you run following command to install all dependencies for the grunt build. You might have to sudo if you don't have the security privileges.
> npm install
UI Developers can run following command to kick off daemon for monitoring scss file changes.
> grunt watch
You can generate unique css file names through content hashing. The following build command will create 8 character long hash prefix for the final css artifacts.
> grunt release
The artifacts will be generated in dist folder under each sub project.