Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner

Project setup

Now we have installed Node.js, npm and Grunt, we're ready to create our first Grunt environment. Let's say we've already built a website, now we want to use Grunt to minify our assets. In this section, we'll learn about the two required files: the package.json file and the Gruntfile.js file, as well as a recommended directory structure.

package.json

The package.json file is a package descriptor; it is used to store all metadata about the module, such as name, version, description, author, repository, and more. It's the single file required to effectively use npm, therefore, the package.json file can also be thought of as the "npm file". As the file extension would suggest, it must be in the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data format. ...