Grunt task to write some .html files as templates into a js object

gistfile1.js

module.exports = function(grunt) {

	// Create the template files
	grunt.registerMultiTask("templates", "Build a js file from html templates", function() {
		var paths = grunt.file.expand( this.data.paths );
		var out = this.data.output;
		var contents = "var Templates = {";
		var count = 0;

		// count files
		paths.forEach(function(path) {
			count++;
		});

		var i = 0;
		paths.forEach(function(path) {
			var html = grunt.file.read(path).replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r|\t)/gm,"");
			var file = path.replace(/^.*[\\\/]/, '').replace('.html', '');
			var json = JSON.stringify(html, null, 2);
			var comma = (i == count-1) ? '' : ',';
			contents += '"' + file + '": ' + json + comma;
			i++;
		});
		contents += '}';

		grunt.file.write( out, contents );
		grunt.log.writeln('File ' + out + ' sucessfully written from ' + count + ' source files');
	});

	// Project configuration.
	grunt.initConfig({

		// Package file
		pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),

		// build templates as js
		templates: {
			html: {
				paths: ["src/templates/*.html"],
				output: "assets/templates.js"
			}
		}
	});

	// Tasks
	grunt.registerTask('default', ['templates']); // Default tasks
	grunt.registerTask('build', ['templates']); // Production tasks

};