Chapter 3. All about Grunt Plugins

Grunt plugins are core to Grunt functionality and, thus, are an important aspect of Grunt because plugins are what we use in order to design an automated build process. A plugin is a task. I may refer to plugins as tasks as you continue through the book, so consider plugins and tasks to be synonymous. Generally speaking, I may use the term Task when referring to plugins in terms of the specific work that they perform. A task is a unit of work that must be performed in order to accomplish a desired outcome, usually, as a portion of work that must be done in order to complete a larger process; although, a task may be in and of itself a standalone process. We may not know, offhand, exactly what tasks are needed to perform on a project. Grunt is scalable in this way, and it is easy to add tasks as we are working through our project. If you have done a few projects, then you will have a good idea for some tasks that you might like to automate. Perhaps...