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Grunt Cookbook

By : Jurie-Jan Botha
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Grunt Cookbook

By: Jurie-Jan Botha

Overview of this book

<p>A web application can quickly turn into a complex orchestration of many smaller components, each one requiring its own bit of maintenance. Grunt allows you to automate all the repetitive tasks required to get everything working together by using JavaScript, the most popular programming language.</p> <p>Grunt Cookbook offers a host of easy-to-follow recipes for automating repetitive tasks in your web application's development, management, and deployment processes. This book will introduce you to methods that can be used to automate basic processes and your favorite tools. By following the recipes, you will soon be comfortable using Grunt to perform a wide array of advanced tasks in a range of different scenarios.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Grunt Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. Generating CSS and JavaScript

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Compiling LESS to CSS

  • Compiling Sass to CSS

  • Compiling Stylus to CSS

  • Compiling CoffeeScript to JavaScript

  • Compiling LiveScript to JavaScript

  • Generating source maps for LESS

  • Generating source maps for Sass

  • Generating source maps for CoffeeScript

  • Defining custom functions with LESS

  • Using Stylus plugins