Automate with Grunt

What’s Next?

That was quite a trek, but as a result we have a simple, structured, and easy-to-follow configuration file for our application’s build process. We can use this as we develop new features for our app, and even to prepare the application for production. Your applications don’t have to use CoffeeScript or Sass (although I strongly suggest using a CSS preprocessor instead of writing CSS by hand), but grunt-contrib-concat and grunt-contrib-watch will hopefully find their way into your next project’s workflow. But don’t move on to the next chapter just yet; try these first:

• Investigate other plug-ins for your workflow, such as grunt-contrib-jshint, which checks your JavaScript files for errors, or grunt-contrib-imagemin, which can automatically ...