Grunt your Way to Glory

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Grunt claims to replace chunky XML and paid GUI tools with JavaScript config and npm plugins, installs via global CLI and per-project package.json, and runs wherever Node runs. Examples: jsHint and Uglify produce lint output and sourcemaps — one run shows 378 lint in 78 files — and the ecosystem offers about 1500 plugins for connect/watch/livereload, assemble, phantomjs testing, image tasks, embed/extract and custom task functions.

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1. 0:00Grunt introduction
2. 5:48Why Grunt as workflow
3. 8:17Grunt CLI setup
4. 12:52Managing Grunt plugins
5. 15:46Why adopt Grunt
6. 17:14Key Grunt plugins
7. 21:08Grunt init scaffolding
8. 23:40Advanced Grunt customization
9. 25:25Grunt community future

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