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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

Finding plugins


Before we even consider creating a plugin of our own, we should first determine whether there isn't already a plugin out there that will satisfy our requirements. In most cases, you will find that someone else has already ventured to solve the problems you are faced with now, and has done most if not all the work for you.

Getting ready

The most obvious place to start looking for a plugin would be on the Internet. So the first thing we'll need to do is open our favorite web browser and get ready to navigate.

How to do it...

The following steps will take us through navigating to the Grunt project's website and using it to search for a plugin that we can use to run tasks concurrently.

  1. First, we'll navigate to the official Grunt plugin listing page by entering the following URL in our web browser: http://gruntjs.com/plugins.

  2. Next, we'll select the search input textbox that should look something like the following:

  3. With the textbox selected, we can now proceed to type the term we wish...