Real-world use cases
Hearing about the benefits of Grunt is all well and good, but what about actual use cases that the average web developer will face every day in the real world? In this section, we'll take an eagle-eye view of the most common use cases for Grunt.
These examples make use of configuration targets. Essentially, targets allow us to define multiple configurations for a task. We'll cover more on configuration targets in Chapter 2, Setting Up Grunt.
Static analysis or Linting
In programming, the term linting is the process of finding probable bugs and/or style errors. Linting is more popular in dynamically typed languages as type errors may only be resolved at runtime. Douglas Crockford popularized JavaScript linting in 2011 with the ...
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