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Reputation: 3848

Is it possible to have one node_module folder for multiple projects in a repository?

asume that we have a repository name REPO which is includes several grunt projects. And let's asume we want that the structure:

ROOT
-- bower_components
-- node_modules
-- project_1
-- project_2
-- project_3 etc

Now the issue is that i need for each project a different gruntfile.js so i can have for example a different distributed minified js file, different tasks etc.

The solution i've got for now but isn't at all helpfull is that each project folder has it's own node_module folder with all the needed modules.

So i;ve got this and i want to change it like the schema above.

ROOT
-- bower_components
-- project_1
---- node_modules
-- project_2
---- node_modules
-- project_3
---- node_modules

Now each gruntfile looks like that:

function config(name) {
  return require ('./tasks/' + name + '.js');
}

module.exports = function (grunt){

  grunt.initConfig({
    pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
    jshint: config('jshint'),
    concat: config('concat'),
    uglify: config('uglify'),
    cssmin: config('cssmin'),
    jsbeautifier: config('jsbeautifier'),
    watch: {
      options: {livereload: true},
      files: ['index.html', 'app/views/**/*.html', 'app/css/*.css', 'js/*.js'],
      tasks: ['jshint']
    },
    karma: {
      unit: {
        configFile: 'test/test.conf.js'
      }
    }

  });

  //load plugins
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-jshint');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-concat');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-uglify');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-cssmin');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-jsbeautifier');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-karma');

  //tasks
  grunt.registerTask('dist', ['jshint', 'concat', 'uglify', 'cssmin', 'jsbeautifier']);
  grunt.registerTask('default', ['watch']);

};

Can i add a path for each NpmTask instead of installing the modules for each project in my REPO?

Please if you need more info or my English are bad ask me anything and i'll update my question.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 153

Answers (1)

Mario Araque
Mario Araque

Reputation: 4572

You can use load-grunt-parent-tasks to do that.

I recognize I did not use this plugin, but I think I will help you.

Upvotes: 1

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