Support arbitrary static files in Lineman with the grunt-contrib-copy task

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Support arbitrary static files in Lineman with the grunt-contrib-copy task

1. add grunt-contrib-copy task to package.json package.json line 2
2. configure lineman to load the task via npm config/application.coffee line 4
3. configure lineman to run the copy task as part of its run/build process config/application.coffee lines 9-11
4. configure the copy task itself config/application.coffee lines 14-18

With this configuration, any file or directory (recursively) in static/ will be copied over as a static asset. (directory structure is preserved.) For example, given:

static/
  favicon.ico
  js/
    html5shim.js

Then lineman build (with latest lineman, and default setup) will create:

dist/
  css/
    app.css
  favicon.ico
  index.html
  js/
    app.js
    html5shim.js

Warning: If there are any name conflicts between files in 'static' and the normal lineman build assets, the static files will overwrite the others (since the copy task is run last).

application.coffee

module.exports = require(process.env['LINEMAN_MAIN']).config.extend "application",

  # tell lineman to load the grunt-contrib-copy task via npm
  loadNpmTasks: 'grunt-contrib-copy'

  # tell lineman to run the copy tasks as part of its build process
  #   run 'dev' target for both run and build phases
  #   run 'dist' target during build phase
  appendTasks:
    common: "copy:dev"
    dist: "copy:dist"

  # configure the copy task
  copy:
    dev:
      files: [ expand: true, cwd: 'static', src: '**', dest: 'generated' ]
    dist:
      files: [ expand: true, cwd: 'static', src: '**', dest: 'dist' ]

package.json

"dependencies": {
  "grunt-contrib-copy": "~0.4.1"
}

And just as a quick reminder, make sure to npm install!!!!!

npm install