Managing a Large Front-End Project with Automated Build Tools
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Claims concrete outcomes: a Grunt-based build that runs grunt watch, lints with JS Hint, concatenates and minifies JS, and compiles Stylus via a plugin. A legacy codebase example has ~80 JS files creating ~160 globals, 10+ CSS files and ~2.5s page load; migration goes IIFE → require modules in stages. Automation plus commit hooks and peer review enforce standards; the live demo shows concat/minify artifacts (dist/app.js and app.min.js) and the watch loop catching lint errors as expected.
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