grunt-bless

grunt-bless 
===========

A grunt module for Blessing your CSS files so they will work in Internet Explorer. This is based on a pull request by Aki Alexandra Nofftz (@akinofftz).

Getting Started
---------------

This plugin requires Grunt >=0.4.0

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:

``shell
npm install grunt-bless --save-dev
`

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

`js
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-bless');
`

The "bless" task
----------------

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

`js
grunt.initConfig({
bless: {
css: {
options: {
// Task-specific options go here.
},
your_target: {
// Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
}
}
}
})
`

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#### options.banner ####

Type: String
Default value: undefined

Add a banner followed by a new line to the top of the main file, the one that
you will include in your source.

`js
options: {
banner: '/ this is a banner /'
}
`

#### options.compress ####

Type: Boolean
Default value: false

Compress the css output added by bless. This _does not_ compress the CSS you
wrote. For that you should try the cssmin plugin.

#### options.force ####

Type: Boolean
Default value: false if grunt --force flag is not set

Override the Grunt option for this task. This will allow bless to overwrite the
input file.

Changed in v0.2.0, grunt-bless will refuse to overwrite the input file. To
return to the old behavior, set this option to true.

#### options.imports ####

Type: Boolean
Default value: true

Enable or disable the use of @import in generated CSS files. This feature was
added in bless.js 3.0.3.

#### options.root ####

Type: String
Default value: ''

Add a path or domain to the @import statements in the generated CSS files. By
default the generated CSS files are relative to the output file.

#### options.logCount ####

Type: Boolean | String
Default value: false

If set to true, you'll get output with all file selectors count. If set to warn, you'll get only log messages only on files that reached CSS selectors limit.

#### options.failOnLimit ####

Type: Boolean
Default value: false

Requires logCount. If set to true, the process will exit with an error if the selector limit is exceeded.

#### options.suffix ####

Type: String
Default value: ''
Added: v1.0.0

Add a suffix to the filename. The suffix will be added before the number and
only if it is not the main file.

#### options.sourceMaps ####

Type: Boolean
Default value: false
Added: v1.0.0

Generate sourcemaps for the provided files.

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These options have been removed from grunt-bless and no longer function.

#### options.cacheBuster ####

Type: Boolean
Default value: true

Add or remove a cache-buster parameter from the generated CSS files.

Reason for removal:

- Removed in bless 4.0.0.
- Other plugins may provide better support.
- See this issue

#### options.cleanup ####

Type: Boolean
Default value: true

Clean up files generated by bless before proceeding.

Reason for removal:

- Removed in bless 4.0.0.
- Other plugins may provide better support.

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#### Default Options ####

The default options will split the files and add a cache-buster parameter. Just as the defaults for blessc are.

`js
grunt.initConfig({
bless: {
css: {
options: {},
files: {
'tmp/above-limit.css': 'test/input/above-limit.css'
}
}
}
})
`

#### Custom Options ####

You can set any option allowed by bless.

`js
grunt.initConfig({
bless: {
css: {
options: {
cacheBuster: false,
compress: true
},
files: {
'tmp/below-limit.css': 'test/input/below-limit.css'
}
}
}
})
`

#### Without writing ####

If you don't want to write blessed files, you can just set input files, without destination and add logging.

`js
grunt.initConfig({
bless: {
css: {
options: {
logCount: true
},
src: [
'test/input/below-limit.css'
]
}
}
})
`

Contributing
------------

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

Release History
---------------

- 1.0.1
- add babel-runtime to add support for older versions of node
- add continous integration
- 1.0.0
- Update to bless 4.0.0
- Clean up the NPM package, thanks @mimiflynn
- Remove use of deprecated APIs.
- Move to ES6.
- Other assorted clean up and formatting.
- 0.2.0
- Updated documentation to note the newness of the not yet released to npm imports option, thanks @spoike
- Added a banner option to avoid banners getting misplaced in the blessing process, thanks @jelmerdemaat
- Added implementation for the force` option.
- Added logCount option, thanks @operatino
- Added logging on file modification and creation, thanks (again) @operatino
- 0.1.1 Fatal documentation flaw, no actual code changes, thanks @codecollision
- 0.1.0 Initial release, courtesy of Aki Alexandra Nofftz