I have a number of backbone apps all hosted on the same site. I am attempting to use grunt-manifest to generate appcache manifests for them. It generates the manifest file, but the links are wrong. I want each app to have a separate manifest file.
For example say I have an app called 'hello', it would be accessed via this url:
mydomain.com/apps/hello
so the main js and css files would be at:
mydomain.com/apps/hello/app.js
mydomain.com/apps/hello/style.css
etc.
There are also some shared components, found at say:
mydomain.com/shared/shared.js
(I dynamically load these with require.js so don't want to concat into the main app.js)
I specify the manifest in grunt like this:
manifest: {
generate: {
options: {
basePath: '<%= gconf.dist_dir %>/',
timestamp: true,
network: ['*'],
},
files: [
{
cwd: 'public/',
src: [
'apps/hello/*',
'shared/*',
// etc
],
dest: '<%= gconf.dist_dir %>/public/apps/hello/manifest.appcache' },
]
}
},
I believe the issue is I am trying to get grunt-manifest to generate an appcache manifest for a portion of a site not the root site. The manifest i get looks like this:
CACHE
apps/hello/app.js
apps/hello/style.css
shared/shared.js
When I load the page - the manifest retrieval fails because it is trying to access links like this:
mydomain.com/apps/hello/apps/hello/app.js
If I manually edit the manifest files and add a '/' in front of everything so it looks like this:
CACHE
/apps/hello/app.js
/apps/hello/style.css
/shared/shared.js
...then it all works.
The issue obviously being the manifest creating relative links, when I want them from the root.
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get grunt-manifest to create these for me with a '/' in front.
I've tried experimenting with 'basePath' on its own, 'cwd' on its own, a combination of the two. If I leave the '/' off the end of say basePath or cwd and try adding it in the 'src' it doesn't work and I get an empty CACHE section.
I'm sure there must be an easy way of doing this with the grunt globing patterns, but I just can't work it out.
Any ideas?
(also - not enough rep to create a new tag, but a 'grunt-manifest' tag might be useful for others in the future)
I just ecnountered the same issue.
I've forked the module here: https://github.com/killfish/grunt-manifest
If you pass in the option absolutePath : true, it will prepend a '/'
options: {
**absolutePath: true,**
network: ['http://*', 'https://*'],
preferOnline: true,
verbose: true,
timestamp: true
},