How to create Grunt Multitask to process my templates-Collection of common programming errors
I am using Gruntjs to process templates for my Joomla! extensions.
I have 3 directories and a Grunt file inside my main directory: component
, tmpl
, tasks
and Gruntfile.js
.
Inside the tasks
directory I have a file named compile.js
:
module.exports = function( grunt ) {
grunt.registerMultiTask('compile', 'Compiles Joomla! extension templates', function() {
// Iterate over all specified file groups.
this.files.forEach(function(file) {
var template, phpcode;
var src = file.src;
var dest = file.dest;
if (!grunt.file.exists(src)) {
grunt.log.warn('Source file "' + src + '" not found.');
return false;
}
template = grunt.file.read(src);
phpcode = grunt.template.process(template);
// Write the destination file.
grunt.file.write(dest, phpcode);
// Print a success message.
grunt.log.writeln('File "' + dest + '" created.');
});
});
};
My Gruntfile has the following code:
module.exports = function(grunt) {
grunt.initConfig({
compile: {
model: {
files: [
{src: 'tmpl/model.tmpl', dest: 'component/models/user.php'},
{src: 'tmpl/model.tmpl', dest: 'component/models/company.php'}
]
}
}
});
// Actually load this plugin's task.
grunt.loadTasks('tasks');
grunt.registerTask('compile', ['compile']);
};
When I run the command grunt compile
node.js:893
var fn = runInThisContext(source, this.filename, true);
^
TypeError: undefined is not a function
at createWritableStdioStream (node.js:555:18)
at process.stdout (node.js:612:16)
at write (/home/qawe/Desktop/code/compile/node_modules/grunt/lib/grunt/log.js:78:12)
at writeln (/home/qawe/Desktop/code/compile/node_modules/grunt/lib/grunt/log.js:85:3)
at Object.log.writeln (/home/qawe/Desktop/code/compile/node_modules/grunt/lib/grunt/log.js:96:3)
at writeln (/home/qawe/Desktop/code/compile/node_modules/grunt/lib/grunt/fail.js:39:13)
at Object.fail.fatal (/home/qawe/Desktop/code/compile/node_modules/grunt/lib/grunt/fail.js:55:3)
at process.uncaughtHandler (/home/qawe/Desktop/code/compile/node_modules/grunt/lib/grunt.js:123:10)
at process.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
at process._fatalException (node.js:272:26)
Is there something that I’m doing wrong? Please help, I’m still a newbie in Grunt.