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Elad Elrom, Pro MEAN Stack Development, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2044-3_9

9. Build Scripts

Elad Elrom

(1)New York, USA

When working on a JavaScript project, right from the beginning, we need to be mindful of the build scripts. However, with so many tools available, it is easy to get confused about what to use and when to use it.

As you may recall from Chapter 1, I introduced you to Grunt and Gulp, and we installed them via npm. Both Grunt and Gulp, while utilizing Node.js, help us to automate our tasks. These both require that we install plugins and create a build file, and both are command line packages that can enhance the capability of your local environment as well as the deployment servers, but what is the difference between these ...

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