How to config.get() a project variable into a task's initConfig in Grunt?
gruntjs, javascript, node.js
Solution
The way you've written it, the `grunt.config.get` call is executed when the config object is being built, so your variable isn't there yet.
A way to make grunt load them later is to use a template instead:
concat:
dist:
src: "<%= pathsfound.bower %>"
The templates are lazily expanded, just before the task is run. If the task that sets the config runs before the task that needs it, it should work.
Problem
In Grunt, I have a custom multitask that extracts paths from an HTML file and uses `grunt.config.set()` to add those found paths to an array on the config called "pathsfound". I want to use `grunt.config.get()` to access those paths so that I can use them to concat, uglify, etc. Gruntfile.coffee ``` pathfinder: dist: files: [ expand: true cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>' src: '*.html' ] concat: dist: src: grunt.config.get('pathsfound') dest: 'stuff.js' ``` And my registered task looks like: ``` grunt.registerTask 'dist', ['pathfinder:dist', 'concat:dist'] ``` However, the concat task is giving me an `TypeError: Cannot call method 'indexOf' of undefined` error, suggesting that `grunt.config.get()` can't find the `pathsfound` variable in initConfig. Is there any way to lazy load config variables during the initConfig phase?