css/js file path update in the html file using grunt

Question

I have a folder structure, when I create the build folder using grunt, a hash need to be prefixed with .css file and that name need to be updated in the link tag in index.php.

sitename/css/main.css    
sitename/index.php

After executing grunt command build folder need to be created with following structure

build/sitename/css/2ed6bccd.main.css
build/sitename/index.php

In the index.php

<link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css">

need to be replaced with

<link rel="stylesheet" href="2ed6bccd.main.css">

How can I achieve this?

Rachid · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-19 15:43:23Z

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You can use either grunt-rev or grunt-filerev tasks together with grunt-usemin for cache busting of static files in your index.php

example:

grunt.initConfig({
config: {
  app: 'sitename',
  dist: 'build/sitename'
},
clean: {
  dist: {
    files: [{
      dot: true,
      src: [
        '.tmp',
        '<%= config.dist %>/*',
        '!<%= config.dist %>/.git*'
      ]
    }]
  }
},
rev: {
  dist: {
    files: {
      src: [
        '<%= config.dist %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js',
        '<%= config.dist %>/styles/{,*/}*.css'
      ]
    }
  }
},
useminPrepare: {
  html: '<%= config.app %>/index.php',
  options: {
    dest: '<%= config.dist %>'
  }
},
usemin: {
  html: ['<%= config.dist %>/{,*/}*.php'],
  css: ['<%= config.dist %>/styles/{,*/}*.css'],
  js: '<%= config.dist %>/scripts/*.js',
  options: {
    dirs: [
      '<%= config.dist %>', 
      '<%= config.dist %>/styles'
    ]      
  }
},
htmlmin: {
  dist: {
    options: {
    },
    files: [{
      expand: true,
      cwd: '<%= config.dist %>',
      src: ['*.html', 'views/*.html'],
      dest: '<%= config.dist %>'
    }]
  }
},
copy: {
  dist: {
    files: [{
      expand: true,
      dot: true,
      cwd: '<%= config.app %>',
      dest: '<%= config.dist %>',
      src: [
        '{,*/}*.php',
        '*.{ico,png,txt}',
        '.htaccess',
        'bower_components/**/*',
        'images/{,*/}*.{gif,webp}',
        'fonts/*',
        'data/*'
      ]
    }, {
      expand: true,
      cwd: '.tmp/images',
      dest: '<%= config.dist %>/images',
      src: [
        'generated/*'
      ]
    }]
  },
  styles: {
    expand: true,
    cwd: '<%= config.app %>/styles',
    dest: '.tmp/styles/',
    src: '{,*/}*.css'
  }
}});

Your grunt build task:

grunt.registerTask('build', [
     'clean:dist',
     'useminPrepare',
     'concat:generated',
     'cssmin:generated',
     //'uglify:generated',
     'copy:dist',
     'rev',
     'usemin'
  ]);

And then in your index.php, put your css ref in the following block

  <!-- build:css styles/main.css -->
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/main.css">
  <!-- endbuild -->

This will rename sitename/css/main.css with an 8 character long hash prefix. For example sitename/css/9becff3a.main.css

edited May 19, 2015 at 15:43

answered May 8, 2015 at 13:47

Rachid

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9 Comments

San Over a year ago

Thank you very much for your reply! I'm really sorry I could not respond on time. I just tried your code but, it didn't gave me the expected result. 1) 'build' folder is not created. 2) it overwrite the main.css to sitename/css/9becff3a.main.css as it should happen in the build folder. 3) in the main.php it didn't update the new file name of .css file.

San Over a year ago

I have a question about my approach also. In my site I'm using so many library files also. When I create the 'build', only the modified files I need to copy or whole site I need to copy to the build folder? How can I handle the revert, if the something break in the production server? If I copy only modified files in the build, there will be main .css files in the production, how can I avoid these? What is the best approach for it?

Rachid Over a year ago

1- You will need to copy all files to the build folder every time you deploy. before copying all the resources, clean:dist you destination folder. 2-you don't revert from prod, cause you should deploy to a test/stage environment that mimic you prod before you deploy. take a look at the gruntfile in this example gist.github.com/doomsbuster/7507710. Notice the diff between build tasks and the default ones.

Rachid Over a year ago

I've edited the solution to include a copy task that will copy you php to build. Unfortunately, I can't see your gruntfile. good luck

San Over a year ago

All the issues I mentioned still exists. grunt.registerTask('default', [ 'rev', 'usemin']); this is my registerTask() function call. is this correct? as I mentioned in the previous comment the issues are 1) 'build' folder is not created. 2) it overwrite the main.css to sitename/css/9becff3a.main.css as it should happen in the build folder. 3) in the main.php it didn't update the new file name of .css file.

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