Grunt projects have two important files that are required in order to define and configure Grunt: package.json and gruntfile.js. The package.json is a JSON file that is normally located at the root of a project using NPM to manage dependencies, and gruntfile.js is a JavaScript file that also exists in the project root directory. The combination of these two files provides the information about the project and configuration of the packages used in the project that are needed in order to create an automated build system. We will look at each in more detail before beginning to configure sample_project.
As mentioned, package.json is a JSON file that defines data about our project, also known as project metadata. In this file, as we have seen throughout our plugin installation process, we have registered our project's plugins in the devDependencies section.
The metadata that package.json defines, in addition to the project dependencies...