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Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner

You're reading from Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner If you know JavaScript you ought to know Grunt – the Task Runner for managing sophisticated web applications. From a basic understanding to constructing your own advanced Grunt tasks, this tutorial has it all covered.

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783980628

Length 132 pages

Edition Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Grunt

Concepts

Application Testing

Authors (2):

Jaime Pillora

Bocoup LLC

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Introducing Grunt

2. Setting Up Grunt FREE CHAPTER

3. Using Grunt

4. Grunt in Action

5. Advanced Grunt

Index

Development tools

In this section, we will go over a selection of development tools, which directly and indirectly relate to the average Grunt development workflow.

Author picks

In this section, I will cover the tools of my own development environment, and the reasons why I think each is useful.

Mac OS X

In my opinion, Mac OS X (http://gswg.io#osx) provides the optimal development environment. Mac OS X combines a Unix-based operating system with a brilliant user experience, allowing you to make use of the vast number of Unix-based development tools without having to worry about system level intricacies and incompatibilities. Homebrew (http://gswg.io#brew) is an OS X alternative to Linux's apt-get, providing a simple and easy-to-use method for installing command-line tools.

Windows is useful if you develop on the Microsoft stack (.NET, C#, and so on). However, Mac OS X is better suited to frontend development. Since, in addition to Unix developer tools, there are many powerful graphics and design...

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Authors (2)

Bocoup LLC

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Jaime Pillora

Jaime Pillora

Jaime Pillora  is a passionate full-stack JavaScript developer, an open source advocate and contributor, and is currently the CTO of Luma Networks, a well-funded networking startup in Sydney, Australia.Jaime has always been interested in all things computer science, and from a young age, he began to devote his time and effort to learning and perfecting his knowledge in the field. Jaime holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of New South Wales. In all of his work, Jaime strives to reduce technical debt while maintaining maximum efficiency; this is done through software engineering best practices, combined with using the best tools for the given situation. Grunt is one such tool, which is utilized in every frontend project. Jaime's interest in Grunt began early on in his development career and he has since become a renowned expert. Jaime has been working as a frontend JavaScript developer since 2008, and a backend JavaScript developer utilizing Node.js since 2011. Currently, Jaime leads all software development at Luma Networks, who is implementing software-defined networking on commodity hardware utilizing JavaScript.

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