De-Fancify Bootstrap with Grunt, using the grunt-text-replace plugin. After installing grunt-text-replace, incorporate this code into your own grunt.initConfig object. The goal is to remove box-shadows, text-shadows, border-radii, gradients, and gradientBars from Bootstrap's standard UI elements -- outputting a version of Bootstrap's LESS (or SC…

defancifyBootstrap.js

/*
Grunt is here: http://gruntjs.com/
The plugin grunt-text-replace is here: https://github.com/yoniholmes/grunt-text-replace
After reading those instructions, it should be clear how to use the following.
*/

module.exports = function(grunt) {

  grunt.initConfig({

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

    replace: {
      // This is the important part: a subtask that consists of a series of regex find/replace commands.
      removeFanciness: {
        // Set your source. The path below is useful if you installed Bootstrap with Bower.
        src: ['components/bootstrap/less/*.less'],
        // Set the destination directory for your modified LESS.
        dest: 'styles/less/bootstrap-build/',
        replacements: [{
          from: /(.(box-shadow|#gradient|gradientBar|border-.*radius).*\;)/g,
          to: '//--de-fancified!-- $1'
        }, {
          from: /(text-shadow.*\;)/g,
          to: '//--de-fancified!-- $1'
        }]
      }
    }

  });

  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-text-replace');

  // Register the task however you see fit.
  grunt.registerTask('bootstrap-build', ['replace']);

};


// AND here's the same idea, but for SCSS
module.exports = function(grunt) {

  grunt.initConfig({

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

    replace: {
      removeFanciness: {
        src: ['components/sass-bootstrap/lib/*.scss'],
        dest: 'styles/scss/bootstrap-build/',
        replacements: [{
          from: /(@include (box-shadow|gradient|border-.*radius).*\;)/g,
          to: '//--de-fancified!-- $1'
        }, {
          from: /(text-shadow.*\;)/g,
          to: '//--de-fancified!-- $1'
        }]
      }
    }

  });

  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-text-replace');

  grunt.registerTask('bootstrap-build', ['replace:removeFanciness']);

};