Experimenting with a Google Docs add-on to manage TimelineJS spreadsheets

This add-on uses the Grunt task runner to compile the HTML, CSS, and JS files that make up the add on into the inline HTML format that Google Apps Script accepts. It also uses gapps to upload those compiled files to Google Drive.

To install Grunt, you'll need the Node Package Manager, or npm. You can get that by downloading Node.js

Once you have Node.js installed, you can open your terminal and install Grunt with the command

npm install -g grunt

You'll also want to install the Grunt command line interface

npm install -g grunt-cli

The grunt plugin we use to compile our CSS and JS is chyingp's Grunt inline. To install that, you can run

npm install grunt-inline --save-dev

The gapps package, created by danthareja, can be found here. To install it, run

npm install -g node-google-apps-script

Please read through and follow the steps in the gapps readme.

Once everything is installed correctly, you can compile your files with

grunt inline

and upload them to your Google Drive with

gapps upload