Create a Firefox manifest from your projects package.json.
Create a Firefox manifest from your projects package.json.
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 grunt-firefox-manifest --save-dev
Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-firefox-manifest');
In your project’s Gruntfile, add a section named firefoxManifest
to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig()
.
grunt.initConfig({
firefoxManifest: {
options: {
// Task-specific options go here.
},
your_target: {
// Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
},
},
});
Type: String
Default value: 'package.json '
The location of the package.json to use as the data source.
Type: String
Default value: 'manifest.webapp'
The location where to write the Firefox manifest to.
Using the default options generates a manifest.webapp
file next to your package.json
.
grunt.initConfig({
firefoxManifest: {
options: {}
},
});
If one of the files is located in a different location, pass the path to it as a param:
grunt.initConfig({
firefoxManifest: {
options: {
packageJson: 'app/package.json',
manifest: ' dist/manifest.webapp',
}
},
});
Add a section firefoxManifest
to your package.json
where you provide the needed information for the manifest. If you don’t provide name, description, version or developer in the firefoxManifest
section, then the fields of the package.json
will be used instead (developer falls back to author).
Assume we have a package.json like the following:
{
"name": "My App",
"description": "My App description",
"version": "0.4.0",
"author": {
"name": "The developer",
"email": "email@example.com",
"url": "http://example.com/"
},
"engines": {
"node": ">= 0.8.0"
},
"scripts": {
"test": "grunt test"
},
"firefoxManifest": {
"permissions": {
"geolocation": {
"description": "Required to locate you."
}
},
"icons": {
"128": "/img/icon-128.png"
},
"appcache_path": "/manifest.appcache",
"launch_path": "/"
}
}
This will generate the following manifest.webapp
:
{
"name": "My App",
"description": "My App description",
"version": "0.4.0",
"permissions": {
"geolocation": {
"description": "Required to locate you."
}
},
"icons": {
"128": "/img/icon-128.png"
},
"appcache_path": "/manifest.appcache",
"launch_path": "/",
"developer": {
"name": "The developer",
"email": "email@example.com",
"url": "http://example.com/"
}
}
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.