How do I remove some javascript during grunt-usemin compilation

grunt-usemin, gruntjs, javascript

Solution

Ok, so stumbled on the answer while looking for something else and since no one had yet responded. Here is how I solved it:

You get a copy of Grunt Preprocess with

npm install --save-dev grunt-preprocess

Then you modify your `GruntFile.js` like so (this is for an angular project, YMMV)

module.exports = function (grunt) {
    grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-preprocess');      <-- Add this line near the top of the file

add this in your list of subtasks

    preprocess : {
        options: {
            inline: true,
            context : {
                DEBUG: false
            }
        },
        html : {
            src : [
                '<%= yeoman.dist %>/index.html', 
                '<%= yeoman.dist %>/views/*.html'
            ]
        },
        js : {
            src: '.tmp/concat/scripts/*.js'
        }
    },

Modify your registered tasks (at the bottom of the file) like thils:

grunt.registerTask('build', [
    'clean:dist',
    'useminPrepare',
    'concurrent:dist',
    'autoprefixer',
    'concat',
    'preprocess:js',  // Remove DEBUG code from production builds
    'preprocess:html',  // Remove DEBUG code from production builds
    'ngmin',
    'copy:dist',
    'cdnify',
    'cssmin',
    'uglify',
    'rev',
    'usemin'
]);

Then modify your existing javascript code something like this:

// @if DEBUG
'server_mocks',  // Won't be included in production builds
// @endif

and your existing html code something like this:

<!-- @if DEBUG -->
<script src='scripts/mock.js'></script>  <!-- Won't be included in production builds -->
<!-- @endif -->

Problem

I have code that makes it easy and fast to write/test code, that code does not belong in my production code (mostly it mocks out the server so I only need the grunt server). Two parts to this, one is how to I remove parts of a script ``` angular.module('nglaborcallApp', [ 'ngCookies', 'ngResource', 'ngSanitize', 'ngRoute', 'server_mocks', // Don't want this line in the production build 'dialogs' ``` ] and then a section of index.html that needs to go away ``` <!-- build:js({.tmp,app}) scripts/mocks/mocks.js --> <script type='text/javascript'>var Mocks = {};</script> <script src='scripts/mocks/jobs.js'></script> <script src='scripts/mock.js'></script> <!-- endbuild --> ``` So this might be 2 questions. I don't see anything in the usemin documentation about this so I'm guessing there is some other tool, but I don't know what the name of that tool is. The other possibility is I'm doing it wrong and rather than inject this mocking object, I should be doing it with the grunt server. What is everyone else doing?

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