Grunt plugins are core to Grunt functionality and, thus, are an important aspect of Grunt because plugins are what we use in order to design an automated build process. A plugin is a task. I may refer to plugins as tasks as you continue through the book, so consider plugins and tasks to be synonymous. Generally speaking, I may use the term Task when referring to plugins in terms of the specific work that they perform. A task is a unit of work that must be performed in order to accomplish a desired outcome, usually, as a portion of work that must be done in order to complete a larger process; although, a task may be in and of itself a standalone process. We may not know, offhand, exactly what tasks are needed to perform on a project. Grunt is scalable in this way, and it is easy to add tasks as we are working through our project. If you have done a few projects, then you will have a good idea for some tasks that you might like to automate. Perhaps, you...