Grunt JavaScript Automation for the Lazy Developer

Google's Dirk Ginader thinks great developers are lazy, and there's nothing wrong with that. After all, would you rather spend your time working on the mundane stuff - like minification, linting, compilation, unit testing, etc - or actually developing your code?
In this presentation from HTML5DevConf, Dirk will show you how to set up the Grunt JavaScript Task Runner so that you and your team can focus on the fun!
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[@danabakah]

"dist" in this context stands for distribution folder which is a common name for where production files are kept.

[@artemhp]

Thank you very much. Your presentation helped me to start use Grunt.

[@ImportedNoob]

"dude waits for error"
*error happens*
"you have a trailing comma"
*feels like smartest guy at conference*

[@LeviSchuck]

Many times, he said "Markup" and I was yelling "Down! It is Markdown!"

[@Scripterrific]

Why does he call the destination folder for his optimized images "dist" and not "dest"?

[@LSWebApps]

Does grunt help with coffeescript....?

[@ImportedNoob]

You should checkout WebStorm. It's an IDE that will do your coffeescript and sass for you

[@dillonlee2036]

thanks, very helpful!

[@DavidDavida]

i used it as a automated guid sevice as i was decoding my addictive fb habbits an randome majic developments..

[@NecmiKara]

So basically he prefers grunt to ant because it uses fancy technologies like node, and json instead of xml ? Either he failed to explain what grunt brings, either I am missing the whole point.

[@UglyPeter9]

Yes, it does but dont use it. It will compile all coffee files on change which is realllllly slow. Im using a makefile to trigger grunt and call the coffee compiler.

[@samatjorobekov]

nodejs is not written on javascript...

[@saelfaer]

Yes, it does, check out grunjs homepage @ gruntjs[dot]com[slash]plugins, and type in coffee at the side in the search box. you will see there are tasks for coffeescript as well. once you add this to the grunt init teemplate, you have a project up and running in seconds. with full compilation of your cofeescript, css precomiler, minification, etc etc.

[@LSWebApps]

Thnx but surely grunt should be clever enough to compile only changed files but not all... Shouldn't that be the case...

[@Scripterrific]

thanks

[@HMP53]

Angular + Grunt = DevSex

[@DavidDavida]

i went click an this text!..

[@StingSting844]

He could have completed the slides in 20 mins had he spoken faster. !!

[@thiennq]

I'm too lazy to watch whole the video!

[@jose280714]

lousy speech, and boring.

[@tore28]

Whiners gonna whine.

[@gagginaspinnata]

really boring