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Mastering Bootstrap 4

You're reading from   Mastering Bootstrap 4 Master the latest version of Bootstrap 4 to build highly customized responsive web apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788834902
Length 354 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Benjamin Jakobus Benjamin Jakobus
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Revving Up Bootstrap FREE CHAPTER 2. Making a Style Statement 3. Building the Layout 4. On Navigation, Footers, Alerts, and Content 5. Speeding Up Development Using Third-Party Plugins 6. Customizing Your Plugins 7. Advanced Third-Party Plugins 8. Utilities 9. List Groups and Accordions 10. Optimizing Your Website 11. Integrating with AngularJS and React 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Running tasks automatically


Now that we know how to configure and use Grunt to minify our style sheets, let's turn our attention to task automation, that is, how we can execute our Grunt minification task automatically as soon as we make changes to our source files. To this end, we will learn about a second Grunt package, called grunt-contrib-watch (https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-watch). As with contrib-css-min, this package can be installed using npm:

npm install grunt-contrib-watch --save-dev

Open package.json and verify that grunt-contrib-watch has been added as a dependency:

    { 
        "name": "MyPhoto", 
        "version": "0.1.0", 
        "devDependencies": { 
            "grunt": "^0.4.5", 
            "grunt-contrib-cssmin": "^0.14.0", 
            "grunt-contrib-watch": "^0.6.1" 
        } 
    } 

Next, tell Grunt about our new package by adding grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch'); to Gruntfile.js. Furthermore, we need to define the watch task by adding a new empty...

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