grunt-ts-globalizer

Make TypeScript modules globally available in Node environment.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-ts-globalizer --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-ts-globalizer');

The "tsGlobalizer" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named tsGlobalizer to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

The wildcard selector * is perfectly valid for selecting targets to globalize.

grunt.initConfig({
  tsGlobalizer: {
    taskName: {
      options: {
        pattern: /var ([^=;] );/,
        variableName: 'global'
      },
      files: {
        src: [ 'path/to/file.ext', 'path/to/another/*.ext' ]
      }
    }
  }
})

Options

options.pattern

Type: String Default: /var ([^=;] );/

Globalize the file only if the pattern has group capture of the moduleName and has at least one match.

options.variableName

Type: String Default: global

The global variable name to register the module on. By default its registers the module on the Node global variable.

Usage Examples

Usage examples can be found inside Gruntfile.js of the project.

Notes

grunt-ts-globalizer simply adds registration assignments to the head and the foot of the files that are specified by the array passed to files.src,

Contributing

In lieu of a formal style guide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.