In the previous chapters, you learned how to build and test your real-time MEAN application. You learned how to connect all the MEAN components and how to use test frameworks to test your application. While you can continue developing your application using the same methods used in the previous chapters, you can also speed up development cycles by using supportive tools and frameworks. These tools will provide you with a solid development environment through automation and abstraction. In this chapter, you'll learn how to use different community tools to expedite your MEAN application's development. We'll cover the following topics:
Introduction to Grunt
Using Grunt tasks and community tasks
Debugging your Express application using node-inspector
Debugging your AngularJS application's internals using Batarang