Grunt task (v. 0.4.0) for compiling AngularJS templates to JavaScript.

grunt-html2js.js

/**
 * Generates JavaScript version of HTML templates for AngularJS as part of a Grunt build
 *
 * Allows for bundling into multiple collections, for applications that are distributed across more than one page.
 *
 * Usage (in grunt.initConfig):
 *
 *   html2js: {
 *     firstTemplateCollection: {
 *       src: ['<%= src.first %>'],
 *       dest: '<%= tmpdir %>/first'
 *     },
 *     secondTemplateCollection: {
 *       src: ['<%= src.second %>'],
 *       dest: '<%= tmpdir %>/second'
 *     }
 *   }
 *
 * Be sure to add the 'templates' module as a dependency to your main Angular module
 */
module.exports = function (grunt) {

  // HTML-2-JS Templates
  var path = require('path');
  var escapeContent = function(content) {
    return content.replace(/"/g, '\\"').replace(/\r?\n/g, '" +\n    "');
  };
  var normalizePath = function(p) {
    if ( path.sep !== '/' ) {
      p = p.replace(/\\/g, '/');
    }
    return p;
  };

  grunt.registerMultiTask('html2js', 'Generate JavaScript version of HTML templates', function() {

    var options = this.options({
      base: 'src'
    });

    this.files.forEach(function(f) {

      var templates = [];

      f.src.forEach(function(src) {
        var id = normalizePath(path.relative(options.base, src));
        var dest = path.resolve(f.dest, id + '.js');
        grunt.log.writeln('Processing ' + src + ' -> ' + dest);
        templates.push("'/" + id + "'");
        var content = escapeContent(grunt.file.read(src));
        var template = 'angular.module("/' + id + '", []).run(["$templateCache", function($templateCache) ' +
                      '{\n  $templateCache.put("/' + id + '",\n    "' + content + '");\n}]);\n';
        grunt.file.write(dest, template);
      });

      if (templates.length) {

        var template = "angular.module('templates', [" + templates.join(', ') + "]);";
        grunt.file.write(path.resolve(f.dest, 'templates.js'), template);
      }
    });
  });
};

Thank you Karl! I used this in recent project and may have to make it a staple in my workflow 👍