Our environment is set up; let's do something with it. We need something that will automatically run tasks. This is where Grunt comes in. We can give it a list of tasks that Grunt will execute. The first thing we need to do is create a Gruntfile.js file.
Gruntfile.js configures Grunt. It tells Grunt what tasks to carry out, how to run each task, and in what order. We can now create a basic Gruntfile.js file in the root of the project. Add the following code snippet to the file:
module.exports = function(grunt) {
grunt.initConfig({
pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json')
});
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-uglify');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-concat');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-jshint');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-preprocess');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-clean');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-nodeunit');
// Default task(s).
grunt.registerTask('default', []);
grunt.registerTask('prep', []);...