All the tutorials on optimizing website assets with grunt and grunt-usemin are based on the src -> dist deploy strategy. basically processing the items in your src folder and compiles them into the dist folder.
But PHP doesn't work this way. It isn't compiled and "distributed". The source and target page are the same. Which makes it a destructive process.
How do you work around this? Any tips on using Grunt in PHP project in general?
Thx.
We do something similar. We created an index.src.html with the non-minized sources, and create an index.html from this file using usemin, and we have a "proxy" php file which opens the index.html if it exists (which means we are in the production environment and the assets are built), otherwise the index.src.html if the assets haven't been built or we are in a development environment. The main idea is to separate the important parts for usemin to a different file.