Simplify your lazy life - allow Grunt to do your job

Grunt

Grunt is an automation ecosystem for javascript.
So, you can delegate almost all your repetitive tasks to Grunt.

It allows to minify & manage your js files, make builds, run unit tests,
watch your directory for live-reload, etc..
Also it collaborates well with your Bower files to resolve dependencies.

Another words everything u can do from console you can describe in your Gruntfile.js file and run it in more convenient way.

Installing & Using

Grunt is quite straightforward and managed by the Node.js package manager.

Use node -v to check your Node.js version, it's always better when your version is >=0.10.x.

Ensure that your npm is up-to-date by running npm update -g npm (it's probably better to run it with sudo)

Install Grunt:

$ npm install -g grunt-cli

This will put the grunt command in your system path, allowing it to be run from any directory.

Grunt Project:

All you need is two files package.json & Gruntfile.js

package.json - regular npm file to store metadata for projects published as npm modules. So, you grunt & grunt plugins will be listed there.

Gruntfile.js - here u'll define, register & configure the tasks that you'll use.

Get it working:

• Go to project root directory
• Install project dependencies via npm install
• Run Grunt tasks starting with grunt

Installed Grunt tasks can be listed by running grunt --help.

Run it:

U can run your task via invocation grunt taskname.
Note: it will invoke all inner sub tasks automatically.

If u need to run some particular subtask use grunt taskname:subtaskname.

Extras:

Grunt contains a billions pre-defined tasks which you can load and use e.g. grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch'); (@see Grunt Sample)

see Also

• Grunt Getting Started
• Stop download javascript and css libs - use Bower
• Top JavaScript Frameworks 2015