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Marty Hitchcock
13,108 PointsHow to use concatenated files for production only
I am currently using Grunt to concat my css files each time I do a git commit. However, that means between commits when I am working on something I will not be able to see the changes.
Is there a way to change between:
<link href='css/production.css' rel='stylesheet'>
and
<link href='css/header.css' rel='stylesheet'>
<link href='css/app.css' rel='stylesheet'>
etc
I can get the trigger as to WHEN to make the change, I just don't know HOW to change the links.
Can I hear some explanations on how other people change their concatenated files etc between development and production? Unsure if i'm doing it right.
Marty Hitchcock
13,108 PointsYeah I thought about that but seemed over kill to constantly run a command prompt window just for that and there must be an easier way. But I guess it is just one of those things.
David Bath
25,940 PointsDavid Bath
25,940 PointsI don't know how you would do that without using a Grunt plugin like usemin, which will replace the lines in the HTML like you want. But that seems more complicated than is necessary. Why don't you just set up a watch task in the Gulpfile that will run the css concatenation whenever you save a file?