Grunt option without the variable name

Question

I'd like to use grunt for deployment and type grunt deploy production instead of grunt deploy --target=production. As I don't have more parameters, I would like an option to just get the first parameter into a variable. Is it possible?

Answer 1

In many of my Grunt configurations I use https://github.com/lorenwest/node-config. Then deploying to production is this:

NODE_ENV=production grunt deploy

The deploy task is generic, for instance regarding the target folder. The production configuration is available from a dedicated file, for instance production.json, and would hold that folder name.