How do I manage external libraries from bower in grunt?

Asked Sep 03 '14 at 14:27

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Currently I have bower putting all my lib files into: src/libs

I have grunt reading all files in src folder and minifying.

this seems like a lot considering the libraries are already minified, should I just point bower to my dist folder?

Will it still work if I keep them in src?

asked Sep 03 '14 at 14:27

Jason Spick

Have you tried excluding the bower libraries from grunt minifying? – gidomanders Sep 03 '14 at 14:29
How exactly? Can you point me in the right direction? – Jason Spick Sep 03 '14 at 14:31
In your GruntFile.js you can configure grunt. Locate anything with "min" and exclude the directory like [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18453974/how-to-ignore-files-grunt-uglify) – gidomanders Sep 03 '14 at 14:35
ok, so how do I still include them? – Jason Spick Sep 03 '14 at 14:48
Excluding them from minifying doesn't exclude them from other grunt tasks. If you want to exclude the libraries but include some of them, google on `grunt minify exclude directory` and `grunt minify include directory`. Or you could give us the GruntFile.js so we can edit that. – gidomanders Sep 03 '14 at 14:53
Its easier just to point bower to dist/libs – Jason Spick Sep 03 '14 at 15:23
If you do that, don't forget to exclude libs from grunt clean task. – gidomanders Sep 03 '14 at 15:25

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