A Grunt config for better Jekyll development. The goal here is to enhance the Jekyll dev process, but allow falling-back to vanilla Jekyll tasks. All directories are named per Jekyll defaults.

Gruntfile.coffee

# A Grunt config for Jekyll
# =========================
# The goal here is to enhance the Jekyll dev process, but allow falling-back
# to vanilla Jekyll tasks. All directories are named per Jekyll defaults.
module.exports = (grunt) ->
  require('matchdep').filterDev('grunt-*').forEach(grunt.loadNpmTasks)
  # loads:
  # grunt-contrib-clean
  # grunt-contrib-connect
  # grunt-contrib-copy
  # grunt-contrib-sass
  # grunt-contrib-watch
  # grunt-shell

  grunt.initConfig
    # CLEAN
    clean:
      files: [ 'css' ]
    # CONNECT
    connect:
      server:
        options:
          port: 4000
          base: '_site'
    # COPY
    copy:
      css:
        src: 'css/*'
        dest: '_site/'
    # SASS
    sass:
      main:
        files: [
          expand: true
          cwd: '_assets/stylesheets'
          src: [ 'main.scss' ]
          dest: 'css'
          ext: '.css'
        ]
    # SHELL
    shell:
      jekyll:
        command: 'jekyll build'
    # WATCH
    watch:
      options:
        livereload: true
      font:
        files: [ 'font/*' ]
        tasks: [ 'shell:jekyll' ]
      markup:
        files: [
          '_includes/*'
          '_layouts/*'
        ]
        tasks: [ 'shell:jekyll' ]
      posts:
        files: [ '_posts/*' ]
        tasks: [ 'shell:jekyll' ]
      sass:
        files: [ '_assets/stylesheets/*' ]
        tasks: [
          'sass'
          'copy:css'
        ]

  # DEFAULT
  grunt.registerTask 'default', [
    'build'
    'connect'
    'watch'
  ]
  # BUILD
  grunt.registerTask 'build', [
    'clean'
    'sass'
    'shell:jekyll'
  ]