Grunt
Grunt is a JavaScript task runner for Node.js, and if you haven't used it before, it is perhaps the best tool you never knew you needed. You will find it useful for a myriad of tasks including CSS and JavaScript linting and minification, JavaScript template pre-compilation, LESS and SASS pre-processing, and so much more. There are indeed alternatives to Grunt, but none with as large an ecosystem of plugins (at the time of writing).
There are two components to Grunt: the Grunt CLI, and the Grunt task runner itself. The Grunt CLI allows you to run the Grunt task runner command from the command line within a directory that has Grunt installed. This allows you to have a different version of Grunt running for each project on your machine, making ...
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