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Disabling Grunt

To disable Grunt integration in Sails, simply delete your Gruntfile (and/or tasks/ folder). You can also disable the Grunt hook. Just set the grunt property to false in .sailsrc hooks, like this:

{
    "hooks": {
        "grunt": false
    }
}

Can I customize this for SASS, Angular, client-side Jade templates, etc.?

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Yep! Just replace the relevant grunt task in your tasks/ directory, or add a new one. Like SASS, for example.

If you still want to use Grunt for other purposes, but don't want any of the default web front-end stuff, just delete your project's assets folder and remove the front-end oriented tasks from the tasks/register/ and tasks/config/ folders. You can also run sails new myCoolApi --no-frontend to omit the assets folder and front-end-oriented Grunt tasks for future projects. You can also replace your sails-generate-frontend module with alternative community generators, or create your own. This allows sails new to create the boilerplate for native iOS apps, Android apps, Cordova apps, SteroidsJS apps, etc.

NOTE:

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When removing the Grunt hook above you must also specify the following in .sailsrc in order for your assets to be served, otherwise all assets will return a 404.

{
    "paths": {
        "public": "assets"
    }
}

Is something missing?

If you notice something we've missed or could be improved on, please follow this link and submit a pull request to the sails repo. Once we merge it, the changes will be reflected on the website the next time it is deployed.

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