Configure Restangular.baseUrl using Gruntjs

It's possible with the aid of Grunt preprocess which is useful for replacing (and other things) templates inside files.

First add this to your .js code:

/* Begin insertion of baseUrl by GruntJs *//* @ifdef baseUrl var baseUrl = /* @echo baseUrl */ // @echo ";" // @endif *//* @ifndef baseUrl var baseUrl = 'http://www.fallback.url'; // @endif *//* End of baseUrl insertion */

Then in your grunt file, after installing grunt preprocess (i.e npm install grunt-preprocess --save-dev you add the following configuration:

 preprocess: {        options: {            context: {            }        },        js: {            src: 'public/js/services.js',            dest: 'services.js'        }    },

obviously, you need to update the js file list accordingly to which ever files you use. important notice - if you are planning on updating the same file (and not to a new destination) you need to use the inline option

At last, in order to work with a command line config variable, add the following custom task to your grunt file as well:

grunt.registerTask('baseUrl', function () {        var target = grunt.option('rest.baseUrl') || undefined;        grunt.log.ok('baseUrl is set to', target);        grunt.config('preprocess.options.context.baseUrl', target);        grunt.task.run('preprocess');    });

Finally, run the baseUrl task like so:

grunt baseUrl --rest.baseUrl='http://some.domain.net/public/whatever'

Notice I put in a fallback url so you can also run grunt baseUrl and grunt will set your baseUrl to your defined one.