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Mastering Grunt

By : Daniel Li
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Mastering Grunt

By: Daniel Li

Overview of this book

<p>Grunt.js continues to excel as the build automation tool of choice. Along with its support for many third-party technologies, Grunt is packaged with a clean API for defining tasks. This powerful tool can streamline your workflow by automating the preparation tasks for production, such as compression, compilation, obfuscation, testing, and even pushing your web application live. This book will teach you how to master build automation and testing with Grunt. You will have the opportunity to utilize the latest and in-demand web tools, such as Git, Jade, CoffeeScript, Sass, and the Mocha testing engine, across several exciting projects by combining Grunt with them. You will also learn to create a project – a simple Bulletin Board System (BBS), which will explain the use of Grunt alongside the Mocha testing library to automate testing throughout the build process.</p> <p>Mastering Grunt will demonstrate how to leverage Grunt with other technologies to become an expert in build automation, teaching you the best practices for modern web development along the way.</p>
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

About the Reviewers

Florian Bruniaux is a French student at the University of Technology of Troyes (UTT), and is studying in the IT and Information Systems department. He is passionate about new technologies, particularly of process optimization and software development.

Specialized in frontend and client-side development, he has worked for various companies such as Aylan, a French start-up, Oxylane, and EDF, where he worked on IT projects such as the server-monitoring system, cross-browser, multidevice app conception, and development.

Philippe Charrière is a bid manager at Steria in France, and at night, he is an open source developer advocate for the Golo project (http://golo-lang.org/) and is a Backbone enthusiast. He has written a small French open source book about Backbone.js (https://github.com/k33g/backbone.en.douceur/). He is also an occasional speaker on Backbone.js and mobile technologies. He focuses primarily on open web technologies (frontend and server-side).

Peter deHaan likes Grunt a lot and thinks that it's the best thing to happen to Node.js since npm. You can follow his Grunt npm-Twitter-bot feed using the handle @gruntweekly.