So, people seem to be exited about something called ‘Grunt’…<\/p>\n
Let’s explore.<\/p>\n
From the Grunt website<\/a>:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Getting Started<\/p>\n – I installed Node.js using the windows installer available here<\/a><\/p>\n – Then install Grunt’s command line interface (CLI) from the (standard!) windows command line (doesn’t work from console2):<\/p>\n This will put the Note that installing A typical setup will involve adding two files to your project: package.json<\/strong>: This file is used by npm<\/a> to store metadata for projects published as npm modules. You will list grunt and the Grunt plugins your project needs as devDependencies<\/a> in this file.<\/p>\n Gruntfile<\/strong>: This file is named See for more here<\/a><\/p>\n\n
\nIn one word:\u00a0<\/span>automation.\u00a0<\/strong>Automation of what? Well, such repetitive tasks as: minification, compilation, unit testing, linting etc.<\/span><\/li>\n
\nThe Grunt ecosystem is huge with hundred of plugins. Coffeescript, handlebars, jade, JS Hint, {less}, require.js. SASS, Stylus etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nInstallation<\/h4>\n
npm install -g grunt-cli\u00a0<\/code><\/p>\ngrunt<\/code> command in your system path, allowing it to be run from any directory.<\/p>\ngrunt-cli<\/code> does not install the Grunt task runner! The job of the Grunt CLI is simple: run the version of Grunt which has been installed next to a Gruntfile<\/code>. This allows multiple versions of Grunt to be installed on the same machine simultaneously.\u00a0Each time grunt<\/code> is run, it looks for a locally installed Grunt using node’s require()<\/code> system. Because of this, you can run grunt<\/code> from any subfolder in your project.\u00a0If a locally installed Grunt is found, the CLI loads the local installation of the Grunt library, applies the configuration from your Gruntfile<\/code>, and executes any tasks you’ve requested for it to run.<\/p>\nPreparing a new Grunt project<\/a><\/h3>\n
package.json<\/code> and the Gruntfile<\/code>.<\/p>\nGruntfile.js<\/code> or Gruntfile.coffee<\/code> and is used to configure or define tasks and load Grunt plugins.<\/p>\n