I'm using grunt, and I would like to concat all js files in a certain directory, in a specific order (It's an angular js app, so I want to do my module definitions first, followed by everything else). My grunt concat target looks like:
concat: {
mobile: {
expand: true,
cwd: "static/javascript/mobile/app/",
src: ["main-module.js", "**/*-module.js", "**/*.js", "!static/javascript/mobile/dist/*"],
dest: "static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js"
}
}
The above configuration seems like it should concat main-module.js, followed by all other module.js files, followed by everything else, omitting everything in the dist folder. However, the result, when running grunt with --verbose is something like:
Running "concat:mobile" (concat) task
Verifying property concat.mobile exists in config...OK
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/main-module.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/main-module.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/clients/clients-module.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/clients/clients-module.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/reports/reports-module.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/reports/reports-module.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/schedules/schedules-module.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/schedules/schedules-module.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/services/services-module.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/services/services-module.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/clients/addclient-ctrl.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/clients/addclient-ctrl.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/clients/clientprofile-ctrl.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/clients/clientprofile-ctrl.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/clients/clients-ctrl.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/clients/clients-ctrl.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/clients/clients-service.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/clients/clients-service.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/common/directives.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/common/directives.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/common/filters.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/common/filters.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/common/header-ctrl.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/common/header-ctrl.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/common/navbarcollapse-directive.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/common/navbarcollapse-directive.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/dist/ngmobile.concat.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/main-ctrl.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/main-ctrl.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/main-service.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/main-service.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/reports/reports-ctrl.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/reports/reports-ctrl.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/schedules/schedules-ctrl.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/schedules/schedules-ctrl.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/schedules/schedules-service.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/schedules/schedules-service.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/services/addservice-ctrl.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/services/addservice-ctrl.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/services/serviceprofile-ctrl.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/services/serviceprofile-ctrl.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/services/services-ctrl.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/services/services-ctrl.js
Files: static/javascript/mobile/app/services/services-service.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/services/services-service.js
Options: separator="\n", banner="", footer="", stripBanners=false, process=false
Reading static/javascript/mobile/app/main-module.js...OK
Writing static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/main-module.js...ERROR
Warning: Unable to write "static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js/main-module.js" file (Error code: ENOTDIR). Use --force to continue.
Aborted due to warnings.
This tells me that it's finding the files I want it to find, and then attempting to write (copy?) them to the file path specified in dest. How did I get this so horribly wrong? :) If anyone cares enough to save the last few hairs on my head I would really appreciate some input as to what I'm doing wrong here. I want to concat all the files in src into the dest file.
Edit
If I remove the expand property, the output looks like:
Running "concat:mobile" (concat) task
Verifying property concat.mobile exists in config...OK
Files: main-module.js, clients/clients-module.js, reports/reports-module.js, schedules/schedules-module.js, services/services-module.js, clients/addclient-ctrl.js, clients/clientprofile-ctrl.js, clients/clients-ctrl.js, clients/clients-service.js, common/directives.js, common/filters.js, common/header-ctrl.js, common/navbarcollapse-directive.js, dist/ngmobile.concat.js, main-ctrl.js, main-service.js, reports/reports-ctrl.js, schedules/schedules-ctrl.js, schedules/schedules-service.js, services/addservice-ctrl.js, services/serviceprofile-ctrl.js, services/services-ctrl.js, services/services-service.js -> static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js
Options: separator="\n", banner="", footer="", stripBanners=false, process=false
>> Source file "main-module.js" not found.
>> Source file "clients/clients-module.js" not found.
>> Source file "reports/reports-module.js" not found.
>> Source file "schedules/schedules-module.js" not found.
>> Source file "services/services-module.js" not found.
>> Source file "clients/addclient-ctrl.js" not found.
>> Source file "clients/clientprofile-ctrl.js" not found.
>> Source file "clients/clients-ctrl.js" not found.
>> Source file "clients/clients-service.js" not found.
>> Source file "common/directives.js" not found.
>> Source file "common/filters.js" not found.
>> Source file "common/header-ctrl.js" not found.
>> Source file "common/navbarcollapse-directive.js" not found.
>> Source file "dist/ngmobile.concat.js" not found.
>> Source file "main-ctrl.js" not found.
>> Source file "main-service.js" not found.
>> Source file "reports/reports-ctrl.js" not found.
>> Source file "schedules/schedules-ctrl.js" not found.
>> Source file "schedules/schedules-service.js" not found.
>> Source file "services/addservice-ctrl.js" not found.
>> Source file "services/serviceprofile-ctrl.js" not found.
>> Source file "services/services-ctrl.js" not found.
>> Source file "services/services-service.js" not found.
Writing static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js...OK
File "static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile.concat.js" created.
Notice, the third line in the snipped above "Files: ..." lists all the files I wanted it to find, but then says the source file isn't found.
EDIT 2
Matt's solution below takes care of the issue, below is my updated code:
concat: {
mobile: {
dest: "static/javascript/mobile/app/dist/ngmobile-concat.js",
src: (function () {
var cwd = "static/javascript/mobile/app/";
var files = ["*-module.js", "**/*-module.js", "**/*.js"];
files = files.map(function (file) {
return cwd + file;
});
files.push("! static/javascript/mobile/app/dist");
return files;
}())
}
}