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Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner

You're reading from   Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner If you know JavaScript you ought to know Grunt – the Task Runner for managing sophisticated web applications. From a basic understanding to constructing your own advanced Grunt tasks, this tutorial has it all covered.

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Published in Feb 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783980628
Length 132 pages
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Jaime Pillora Jaime Pillora
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Development tools


In this section, we will go over a selection of development tools, which directly and indirectly relate to the average Grunt development workflow.

Author picks

In this section, I will cover the tools of my own development environment, and the reasons why I think each is useful.

Mac OS X

In my opinion, Mac OS X (http://gswg.io#osx) provides the optimal development environment. Mac OS X combines a Unix-based operating system with a brilliant user experience, allowing you to make use of the vast number of Unix-based development tools without having to worry about system level intricacies and incompatibilities. Homebrew (http://gswg.io#brew) is an OS X alternative to Linux's apt-get, providing a simple and easy-to-use method for installing command-line tools.

Windows is useful if you develop on the Microsoft stack (.NET, C#, and so on). However, Mac OS X is better suited to frontend development. Since, in addition to Unix developer tools, there are many powerful graphics and design...

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