How to use grunt-newer with grunt-config?

[luxmedia]

Hello, how can i use the grunt-newer plugin within load-grunt-config?

If i follow the instructions i should prefix the tasks (i suppose in my aliases.yaml) with newer:. What i get is the following error:

Running "newer:scripts" (newer) task
Fatal error: The "newer" prefix is not supported for aliases

I think its not as easy as i thought to implement -newer within grunt-config, isn't it?

A second question: Whats about loading tasks/plugins without the grunt- namespace? I tried the wildcard * instead of grunt-* in the grunt-config but without success. "The task could not be found ..."

Regards
Volker

[apla]

same problem. fixed using aliases file

[kyvour]

+1

[SolomoN-ua]

Hi guys, can someone provide an example of configuration, for testing purpose?

[kyvour]

newer works OK for me. There is my aliases.yml file:

css:
  description: |
    Task for development.
    The task performs minification for images, compilation of scss files in
    development mode and process styles with postcss plugins.
    You can use this task when you need only rebuild your css.
    To run this task you should use 'grunt css' command.
  tasks:
    - newer:imagemin
    - sass:dev
    - newer:postcss:css

js:
  description: |
    Task for development.
    The task checks javascript files for coding standards and makes some their
    beautification.
  tasks:
    - newer:jshint
    - newer:uglify:beauty

dev:
  description: |
    Task for development.
    The main task for process theme in a development mode.
    This task processes all subtasks for this theme: performs minification for
    images, checks javascript files files for coding standards and makes their
    beautification, compiles scss files in development mode and processes styles
    with postcss plugins.
  tasks:
    - newer:imagemin
    - newer:jshint
    - newer:uglify:beauty
    - sass:dev
    - newer:postcss:css

devcr:
  description: |
    Task for development.
    Task is the same as 'dev' task, but additionally it rebuilds drupal cache.
  tasks:
    - dev
    - shell:cr

[kyvour]

I had the same error twice. In the first case I tried to add 'never' to the 'dev' task which called in 'devcr' task and the second time with imagemin task, but there was a typo.

So as I understand, you can't use 'newer' with your custom tasks that contains tasks from grunt plugins

[SolomoN-ua]

Hi guys, I'm currently trying to investigate this problem... will keep you informed, thx.