Support for setting package copy order

[nmcclay]

As far as I can tell grunt-bower copies package files in alphabetical order. Which is sometimes something you might want to actually control. For example I'm trying to use grunt-bower in conjunction with Sails.js automatic asset linking and its almost there except for I have no control over the order that packages are copied to the assets directory.

Could we possibly add a 'sort' parameter to the options property? Or possibly a 'order' parameter to the packageSpecific options?

Thanks!

[curist]

Will look into this soon, stay tuned.

2014-03-17 22:03 GMT+08:00 nmcclay [email protected]:

As far as I can tell grunt-bower copies package files in alphabetical
order. Which is sometimes something you might want to actually control. For
example I'm trying to use grunt-bower in conjunction with Sails.js
automatic asset linking and its almost there except for I have no control
over the order that packages are copied to the assets directory.

Could we possibly add a 'sort' parameter to the options property? Or
possibly a 'order' parameter to the packageSpecific options?

Thanks!

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[curist]

Have you come up with any implementation detail about this?
In my initial thought, sort option will take a callback, pass in all bower components' name as an array, and the callback function is responsible to return the names array in desired order.

Maybe it's not that convienient, or maybe it's all depends on one's javascript-fu.

[curist]

Another option would be take up to 2 parameters, high-priority and low-priority, both take names array. Copy order would be

1. names in high-priority
2. names not in high-priority nor low-priority
3. names in low-priority

This would be much easier for users.

[nmcclay]

Honestly I'd take pretty much anything that would let me configure this order at all. If you are in the granting wishes mood though, I'd love being able to configure a 'weight' property in the packageSpecific options.

Something like -

grunt.config.set('bower', {
    dev: {
        dest: '.tmp/public',
        js_dest: '.tmp/public/js',
        css_dest: '.tmp/public/styles',
        options: {
            packageSpecific: {
                "jquery": {
                    "weight" : -1 // lower weight copies before anything else
                },
                "font-awesome": {
                    "weight" : 1 // higher weight copies after everything else
                },
                "underscore": {
                    "weight" : -20 // would load before jquery's -1
                }
            }
        }
    }
});