Want all of your registered tasks in a nice, alphabetized, colour coded list? Think the task list outputted by grunt --help could be more descriptive? grunt-available-tasks to the rescue!

Once the plugin has been installed via npm install grunt-available-tasks --save-dev, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-available-tasks');

Alternatively, use a plugin such as https://github.com/sindresorhus/load-grunt-tasks; specify require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt); in your Gruntfile and you don't need a separate line for every plugin you use. Once installed, simply run grunt availabletasks.

Optionally, if you have a long list of tasks and only want to show a subset of those to others who might have cloned your project, you can specify a section in the initConfig to include, or to exclude the tasks you specify. The options are as follows:

Type: String Default value: false

Define either 'include', or 'exclude'.

Type: Object Default value: false

The list of tasks to either include or exclude.

Type: Boolean Default value: true

Whether to grey out availabletasks from the list or not.

In this project, running availabletasks will exclude jshint and lintspaces and list availabletasks and default. Changing the filter to include would exclude availabletasks and default.

availabletasks: {
    options: {
        filter: 'exclude',
        tasks: ['jshint', 'lintspaces']
    }
}

From left to right, this plugin outputs the task name, the type of the task, then the description and finally a list of multitask targets should you have configured two or more. The type of the task is registered with arrows:

• > denotes a single target task.
• -> denotes a multi target task.
• => denotes a user defined task.