I have a node / angular project that uses npm for backend dependency management and bower for frontend dependency management. I'd like to use a grunt task to do both install commands. I haven't been able to figure out how to do it.
I made an attempt using exec
, but it doesn't actually install anything.
module.exports = function(grunt) {
grunt.registerTask('install', 'install the backend and frontend dependencies', function() {
// adapted from http://www.dzone.com/snippets/execute-unix-command-nodejs
var exec = require('child_process').exec,
sys = require('sys');
function puts(error, stdout, stderr) { console.log(stdout); sys.puts(stdout) }
// assuming this command is run from the root of the repo
exec('bower install', {cwd: './frontend'}, puts);
});
};
When I cd
into frontend, open up node
, and run this code from the console, this works fine. What am I doing wrong in the grunt task?
(I also tried to use the bower and npm APIs, but couldn't make that work either.)
To install client side components during npm install
at the same time than server side libs, you can add in your package.json
"dependencies": {
...
"bower" : ""
},
"scripts": {
...
"postinstall" : "bower install"
}
I prefer to make the difference between install and test/build