Write your json files easily.

This is a plugin for Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner. It is a fork of the project at https://github.com/Xumeiquer/grunt-json-generator which has not been updated for some time and lacks Grunt templating support.

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 xcuipir/grunt-json-generator#0.2.1 --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-json-generator');

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

grunt.initConfig({
  json_generator: {
    your_target: {
      dest: "", // Destination file
      options: {
        // Your json file goes here
        // You can use the Grunt templating system too
      }
    }
  }
});

There are no options themselves. The options are just your json file, that's all.

grunt.initConfig({
  json_generator: {
    target: {
      dest: "bower.json",
      options: {
        name: "json-generator",
        version: "0.1.0",
        description: "Generating json files on the fly really easily.",
        keywords: ["json", "grunt"]
      }
    }
  }
});

This will produce exactly the same result as the simple example shown above but note that the string json is dynamically inserted using Grunt's templating system.

grunt.initConfig({
  what: "json",

  json_generator: {
    target: {
      dest: "bower.json",
      options: {
        name: "<%= what %>-generator",
        version: "0.1.0",
        description: "Generating <%= what %> files on the fly really easily.",
        keywords: ["<%= what %>", "grunt"]
      }
    }
  }
});

If you have any suggestions, find bugs or want to propose additional features, feel free to post a issue on the issue tracker. Help in form of forks & PRs is appreciated. :simple_smile: 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.

• Initial release

Note: First version as a fork (xcuipir/grunt-json-generator)

• Update for Grunt 1.0.1
• Add Grunt templating support

• Add Grunt templating support to output file destination property
• Fix task description