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Grunt overview


May 25, 2021 Grunt


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Grunt -- a building tool for the JavaScript world

Why build tools?

In a word: automation. F or tasks that need to be repeated over and over again, such as compression, compilation, unit testing, linting, and so on, automation tools can reduce your labor and simplify your work. When you have tasks configured correctly in the Gruntfile file, the Task Runr will automatically help you or your team with most of the boring work.

Why use Grunt?

The Grunt ecosystem is huge and growing. W ith a large number of plug-ins to choose from, you can do anything automatically with Grunt at minimal cost. I f you can't find the plug-in you need, create a Grunt plug-in yourself and publish it to npm. Let's take a look at the Getting Started documentation.

Original origin: Http://www.gruntjs.net/getting-started