grunt-simple-concat

How to use

Grunt Config

simpleConcat: {
  main: {
    src: 'app/index.html',
    cwd: './', // working dir relative(or absolute) path,
    scriptsDir: 'scripts', // directory in dest path that should contain script files; optional
    dest: 'dist'
  }
}

• Then just add simple tags with target name after : in your html. And enclose your script tags inside simple tags.

Example-

<!-- simple:vendor -->
<script src="node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/angular/angular.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/angular-ui-bootstrap/dist/ui-bootstrap-tpls.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/angular-animate/angular-animate.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/angular-cookies/angular-cookies.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/angular-messages/angular-messages.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/angular-resource/angular-resource.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/angular-route/angular-route.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/angular-sanitize/angular-sanitize.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/angular-touch/angular-touch.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/jquery-ui-dist/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/ng-file-upload/dist/ng-file-upload.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/adal-angular/lib/adal.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/adal-angular/lib/adal-angular.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/moment/moment.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/underscore/underscore.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/ng-idle/angular-idle.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/ui-select/dist/select.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/select2/dist/js/select2.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/validate.js/validate.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/angular-ui-sortable/dist/sortable.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/chart.js/dist/Chart.js"></script>
<script src="node_modules/jquery-tokeninput/dist/js/jquery-tokeninput.min.js"></script>
<!-- endsimple -->

• If the task is run, this will generate a vendor.js file in specified dest folder and your html will have all these replaced with single script tag with path for vendor.js

Testing the Task

A sample task config and setup is added in testing/ folder. Simply create an index.html with similar kind of content as index.example.html as given in app folder. Then run npm i to install the dependencies and finally run grunt

Don't forget to hit a star, if this saved your life by working in your legacy project! Also, switch to webpack asap!