Building the Project with Grunt
Before we dive into our project’s code, we need to solve a problem: browsers don’t understand CoffeeScript. And they don’t understand Eco, the templating language you’ll meet a bit later. They only understand JavaScript. So how do we turn our source files into JavaScript with minimal pain and frustration?
The answer is Grunt.[38] Grunt is a Node.js-based task runner, well-suited to compiling our project assets (Eco templates and CoffeeScript modules) into JavaScript. In fact, it already has plugins that tell it how to do those exact things!
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