Gruntfile.js

module.exports = function(grunt) {
  grunt.initConfig({
    
    clean: ['dist'],

    ejs: {
      all: {
        options: {
          // site-wide vars here
        },
        src: ['**/*.ejs', '!node_modules/**/*', '!_*/**/*'],
        dest: 'dist/',
        expand: true,
        ext: '.html',
      },
    },

    copy: {
      all: {
        src: ['*.css', '*.html', 'images/**/*', 'img/**/*', '!Gruntfile.js'],
        dest: 'dist/',
      },
    },

    browserify: {
      all: {
        src: 'app.js',
        dest: 'dist/app.js'
      },
      options: {
        transform: ['debowerify']
      }
    },

    connect: {
      options: {
        port: process.env.PORT || 3131,
        base: 'dist/',
      },

      all: {},
    },

    watch: {
      options: {
        livereload: true
      },

      html: {
        files: '<%= ejs.all.src %>',
        tasks: ['ejs'],
      },

      js: {
        files: '<%= browserify.all.src %>',
        tasks: ['browserify'],
      },

      assets: {
        files: ['assets/**/*', '*.css', '*.js', 'images/**/*', 'img/**/*', '!Gruntfile.js'],
        tasks: ['copy'],
      }
    },

    'gh-pages': {
      options: {
        base: 'dist/'
      },
      src: ['**/*']
    }
  });

  require('matchdep').filterDev('grunt-*').forEach(grunt.loadNpmTasks);
  
  grunt.registerTask('default', ['clean', 'ejs', 'browserify', 'copy']);
  
  grunt.registerTask('server', ['default', 'connect', 'watch']);

  grunt.registerTask('deploy', ['default', 'gh-pages']);

};

package.json

{
  "name": "grunt-static-site-test",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "description": "a test of the yeoman grunt static site test",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "grunt server",
    "ghpages": "grunt ghpages"
  },
  "homepage": "http://github.com/ivanoats/grunt-static-site-test",
  "bugs": "http://github.com/ivanoats/grunt-static-site-test/issues",
  "author": {
    "name": "Ivan Storck",
    "email": "ivan@ivanstorck.com",
    "url": "https://github.com/ivanoats"
  },
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "git://github.com/ivanoats/grunt-static-site-test.git"
  },
  "dependencies": {

  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "grunt": "~0.4.1",
    "matchdep": "~0.1.2",
    "grunt-contrib-clean": "~0.4.1",
    "grunt-contrib-concat": "~0.3.0",
    "grunt-contrib-connect": "~0.3.0",
    "grunt-contrib-copy": "~0.4.1",
    "grunt-contrib-watch": "~0.4.4",
    "grunt-browserify": "~1.2.0",
    "grunt-gh-pages": "~0.6.0",
    "grunt-ejs": "~0.1.0",
    "debowerify": "~0.1.3"
  }
}