grunt-css-image

0.4.1 • Public • Published

grunt-css-image

Plugin to generate css file wto bind all images from folder

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Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.2

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-css-image --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-css-image');

The "css_image" task

Overview

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

grunt.initConfig({
  css_image: {
    dist:{
      files:[{
        cwd:"app/images/"
        src: "**/*.{png,jpg,gif,jpeg}"
        dest: "app/styles/_img.css"
      }]
      options:{
        css: true, 
        scss: false, 
        retina: false,
        squeeze: 1, 
        root: "", 
        separator: "_", 
        prefix: "img_"
      }
    }
  },
});

Options

grunt-css-image is grunt plugin and use css-image module functionality. Full description of option's configuration read css-image

Default options:

  • css: true
  • scss: false
  • retina: false,
  • squeeze: 1
  • root: ""
  • separator: "_"
  • prefix: "img_"

Usage Examples

Default Options

In this example task search all images from "app/images/" according mask "**/*.{png,jpg,gif,jpeg}" and write css file in "app/styles/img.css" with css prefix "_img" and path to image folder "../images"

grunt.initConfig({
  css_image: {
    dist:{
      files:[{
        cwd:"app/images/"
        src: "**/*.{png,jpg,gif,jpeg}"
        dest: "app/styles/img.css"
      }],
      options: {}
    }
  },
});

Sample resulting css

/* This file is generated */
.img_cat{
  width: 400px;
  height: 300px;
  background-image: url(cat.png);
  background-size: 400px 300px;
}

Custom Options: generate scss

grunt.initConfig({
  css_image: {
    dist:{
      files:[{
        cwd:"app/images/"
        src: "**/*.{png,jpg,gif,jpeg}"
        dest: "app/styles/img.css"
      }],
      options: {
        css: false,
        scss: true
      }
    }
  },
});

Sample resulting scss

/* This file is generated */
@mixin img_cat(){
  width: 400px;
  height: 300px;
  background-image: url(cat.png);
  background-size: 400px 300px;
}
img_cat__width: 400px;
img_cat__height: 300px;

Contributing

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.

Release History

0.3.0 - migrate to css-image module 0.2.6 - implementation self functionality

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npm i grunt-css-image

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