How grunt plugin get initialized?

Question

I have understood the concept of "require" and "module.export". Now as per my understanding if one file is exporting a module another file invoking that by using "require".

Now in writing grunt task , we write

module.exports = function(grunt){}

Now who requires the module and how grunt argument is passed? I mean how does it work?

Also if some one can tell me what is the life cycle of a node plugin?

Answer 1

Basically grunt is doing the require and than calling that exported function with its instance of grunt. you can see it in: task.js

// Load taskfile.
fn = require(path.resolve(filepath));
if (typeof fn === 'function') {
  fn.call(grunt, grunt);
}