Closes #353 - Created a way to compile markdown to text

package.json

@@ -23,11 +23,14 @@
     "grunt-replace": "^0.7.9",
     "grunt-run": "^0.2.3",
     "grunt-saucelabs": "~8.3.2",
+    "html-entities": "^1.1.1",
     "http-proxy": "~1.1.4",
     "husky": "~0.6.0",
     "istanbul": "~0.2.4",
     "load-grunt-config": "~0.7.0",
     "lodash": "~2.4.1",
+    "marked": "^0.3.2",
+    "marked-text-renderer": "^0.1.0",
     "mkdirp": "^0.5.0",
     "mocha": "~1.20.1",
     "mocha-screencast-reporter": "~0.1.4",

tasks/build.js

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ module.exports = function (grunt) {
     'warble',
     'replace:dist',
     'copy:dist',
+    'compile_dist_readme',
     'chmod_kibana',
     'compress:build_zip',
     'compress:build_tarball'

tasks/compile_dist_readme.js

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+var marked = require('marked');
+var Promise = require('bluebird');
+var join = require('path').join;
+var TextRenderer = require('marked-text-renderer');
+var _ = require('lodash');
+var fs = require('fs');
+var entities = new (require('html-entities').AllHtmlEntities)();
+
+var readFile = Promise.promisify(fs.readFile);
+var writeFile = Promise.promisify(fs.writeFile);
+
+TextRenderer.prototype.heading = function (text, level, raw) {
+  return '\n\n' + text + '\n' + _.map(text, function () { return '='; }).join('') + '\n';
+};
+
+var process = function (input) {
+  var output = input.replace(/<\!\-\- [^\-]+ \-\->/g, '\n');
+  output = marked(output);
+  return entities.decode(output);
+};
+
+module.exports = function (grunt) {
+
+  grunt.registerTask('compile_dist_readme', function () {
+    var done = this.async();
+    var root = grunt.config.get('root');
+    var build = grunt.config.get('build');
+
+    var srcReadme =  join(root, 'README.md');
+    var distReadme = join(build, 'dist', 'README');
+
+    var srcLicense =  join(root, 'LICENSE.md');
+    var distLicense = join(build, 'dist', 'LICENSE');
+
+    marked.setOptions({
+      renderer: new TextRenderer(),
+      tables: true,
+      breaks: false,
+      pedantic: false,
+      sanitize: false,
+      smartLists: true,
+      smartypants: false
+    });
+
+    readFile(srcReadme, 'utf-8')
+    .then(function (data) {
+      return writeFile(distReadme, process(data.toString()));
+    })
+    .then(function () {
+      return readFile(srcLicense, 'utf-8');
+    })
+    .then(function (data) {
+      return writeFile(distLicense, process(data.toString()));
+    })
+    .then(done)
+    .catch(done);
+
+  });
+
+};

tasks/config/copy.js

@@ -46,14 +46,6 @@ module.exports = function (grunt) {
     dist: {
       options: { mode: true },
       files: [
-        {
-          src: '<%= root %>/LICENSE.md',
-          dest: '<%= build %>/dist/LICENSE.md'
-        },
-        {
-          src: '<%= root %>/README.md',
-          dest: '<%= build %>/dist/README.md'
-        },
         {
           expand: true,
           cwd: '<%= build %>/kibana/',

tasks/config/replace.js

@@ -11,10 +11,6 @@ module.exports = function (grunt) {
         ]
       },
       files: [
-        {
-          src: [join(src, 'server', 'README.md')],
-          dest: join(build, 'dist', 'README.md')
-        },
         {
           src: [join(src, 'server', 'bin', 'kibana.sh')],
           dest: join(build, 'dist', 'bin', 'kibana')