Grunt hangs on uglify

Question

I am trying to minify a little angular script, but for some reason uglify just hangs indefinitely. JSHint runs fine and completes if I add it into the task list, and then it hangs on uglify.

Here is my Gruntfile:

module.exports = function (grunt) {

    // Project configuration
    grunt.initConfig({
        // make node configuration available for use
        pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),

        // configure uglify
        uglify: {
            options: {
                mangle: false
            },
            my_target: {
                dist: {'dist/test.min.js': ['src/test.js']}
            }
        },

        // configure JSHint
        jshint: {
            app: ['src/*.js']
        }

    });

    // load pluginsng
    grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-jshint');
    grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-uglify');


    // default
    grunt.registerTask('default', ['jshint', 'uglify']);
    grunt.registerTask('uglify', ['uglify']);
};

Here are the versions I am using:

  "devDependencies": {
    "grunt": "~0.4.5",
    "grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.11.2",
    "grunt-contrib-uglify": "~0.9.1"
  }

I ran grunt -v and after jshint finishes it outputs this forever:

Running "uglify" task

Running "uglify" task

Running "uglify" task

It doesn't seem to care what file I give it either, so it seems to be hitting some issue before it gets to reading my file.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You're redefining the uglify task to run itself in your last line, replacing grunt-contrib-uglify:

grunt.registerTask('uglify', ['uglify']);

That's why your grunt is looping endlessly. Just give it a different name:

grunt.registerTask('compress', ['uglify']);