Grunt-ify Your Front-End Development
There are a lot of manual processes that front-end developers tend to perform in order to get their job done. In this session we will introduce Grunt and showcase some common workflows to automate front-end development. Along the way, we will discuss some tips and tricks when using Grunt and ways to bring sanity to large Gruntfiles.
There are a lot of manual processes that front-end developers tend to perform in order to get their job done. In this session we will introduce Grunt and showcase some common workflows to automate building, JavaScript Linting, Code Style Checking, Live Reloading, CSS Processing, Sass Linting, Unit Testing, Deploying, as well as making your own custom plugins.
We will introduce the basics of Grunt, but as your project gets larger you may find that your Gruntfile soon becomes large and unmanageable. We will look at restructuring your Gruntfile so that it is easier to maintain in larger projects. In addition we will look at how to integrate with Bower and look at various ways to leverage Grunt outside of the standard terminal experience.
Elijah Manor is a Christian and a family man. He works at The Lampo Group (Dave Ramsey) as a front-end web developer. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, ASPInsider, IE userAgent, and a Pluralsight author. He enjoys blogging at http://elijahmanor.com and tweeting (@elijahmanor) about the things he learns.