Initialize a boilerplate webapp with grunt-init with support for transifex, bower dependencies and basic validation.

If you haven't already done so, install grunt-init.

Once grunt-init is installed, place this template in your ~/.grunt-init/ directory. It's recommended that you use git to clone this template into that directory, as follows:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/freaktechnik/grunt-init-openwebapp.git ~/.grunt-init/openwebapp

(Windows users, see the documentation for the correct destination directory path)

At the command-line, cd into an empty directory, run this command and follow the prompts.

grunt-init openwebapp

Note that this template will generate files in the current directory, so be sure to change to a new directory first if you don't want to overwrite existing files.

The generated content will be usable as-is, though be careful to set the transifex parameters correctly during the setup. You can easily add-in other grunt tasks, like watch or ftp deployment, see freaktechnik/mines.js as example.

The Gruntfile coming with this template uses the following asset structure, relative to the project's root:

These are easily adjustable within the first few lines of the Gruntfile.

All HTML files in the html directory are preprocessed with the preprocess node module. The default files already contain directives that get prerocessed. The follwing variables are available (more can be added in the Gruntfile):

The template initializes with an app.properties and an manifest.json file for the default language specified. The transifex resources are called "app" and "manifest" respectively.

All minified, concatenated or uglified files get a default header containing the app name, author and licenses. It can be customized in a Gruntfile config property.

The Gruntfile is prepared with special rules for the gaia-fonts bower component. For all other components the files specified in the main property of the bower.json are copied.

Most grunt targets are documented in the README.md generated from this template.