grunt-debug-code-remover

Removes debugging code from production builds.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

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-debug-code-remover --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-debug-code-remover');

The "debug_code_remover" task

Overview

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

grunt.initConfig({
  debug_code_remover: {
    main: {
        files: [
            {expand: true, cwd: "./", src: ["**/*.js"], dest: "../build/"}
        ]
    },
  },
});

Options

options.identifiers

Type: Array Default value: ["@", "DEBUG"]

All identifiers in this array can be used to mark debugging code in your development source code.

Usage Examples

####Marking debugging code

grunt-debug-code-remover will remove all code that is containing within special type of comments, as follows:

function iDoSomething() {
    /*@<*/ console.log("I'm doing my thing"); /*>@*/
    //Do your thing
}

From this function, the line /*@<*/ console.log("I'm doing my thing"); /*>@*/ will be removed by the plugin.

You can use your own identifier instead of @, by using options.identifiers.

/*IDENTIFIER<*/ denotes the opening mark, and /*>IDENTIFIER*/ denotes the ending mark (notice the < and >). A short identifier is recommended.

Release History

2015-02-25 v0.1.0 Released