Introduction to Grunt
A real world introduction to Grunt. Learn how to quickly get up and running using Grunt to perform tasks against your HTML web application.
What you'll learn
Take a real world look at how to use Grunt to manipulate your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files for your web application. We will explore each of these concepts in depth, along with how to create and deploy custom Grunt Packages to the NPM repository.
Table of contents
- Introduction 2m
- Using Grunt-Init to Kickstart Your Projects 2m
- Demo: Using Grunt-init to Kickstart Your Projects 4m
- Creating Custom, Inline Tasks 2m
- Demo: Creating Custom, Inline Tasks 4m
- Demo: Making Your Custom Tasks Configurable 4m
- Creating Custom Grunt Plugins 4m
- Demo: Using Grunt-init to Scaffold a Plugin 4m
- Demo: Creating Our First Grunt Plugin 6m
- Demo: Creating a MultiTask Grunt Plugin 6m
- Demo: How to Deploy Our Plugin to the NPM Registry 3m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Derik Whittaker is a Software Architect who specializes in all things .Net. Derik has been building enterprise systems on top of the .Net technology stack for over 12 years and along the way has picked up a thing or two about how to create killer systems. During his 12 year career Derik has worked in many different industries ranging from Marking, Healthcare, Retail, Insurance, Automotive and Online Entertainment. Currently Derik is working for a Technology startup (VStrator.com) in Raleigh N... more