CHAPTER 1
Introducing Grunt
So, you’ve picked up this book with the rather unusual title, and you’re probably wondering what Grunt is or, at least, what all the buzz concerning Grunt has been about for the last 24 months. To put it simply, Grunt is a JavaScript task runner. Its primary aim is to automate repetitive tasks, freeing up developers’ time to concentrate on the more difficult problems they face every day.
Grunt is written in JavaScript on top of Node distributed via npm and was created by Ben Alman (https://github.com/cowboy). Since day one, Grunt has featured an application program interface (API) to allow developers to extend and add ...
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