Chapter 5. Advanced Grunt

Up until now, this book has covered the core concepts required to effectively use Grunt. In this chapter, we shall blaze through some extra ideas, plugins, and tools to take our front-end development to the next level. We will get a sneak peak into Testing with Grunt, Continuous integration with Grunt, External tasks, and Grunt plugins. Finally, we will review a series of JavaScript resources and developer tools.

Testing with Grunt

Performing automated tests is another major use case for Grunt. Let us say our build process involves compiling, analyzing, optimizing, and then deploying our application. This sequential nature of Grunt is useful because if any link in the above process fails, Grunt will not proceed, that is, ...

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