Getting to Know Grunt By Writing Your Own Plugin

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A developer writes a Grunt plugin that checks the installed Sass version and fails the build if it doesn’t match the required version, because differing Sass installs produced surprising CSS diffs in commits. The process uses scaffolding with grunt-init/Yeoman, adds a dependency on shelljs for sync CLI checks, refactors core logic into a testable library, verifies behavior with nodeunit and integration tests, and uses npm link to test before publish; the plugin works.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 22:38Integration Testing
3. 23:43package.json
4. 27:35npm publish
5. 29:03Scaffolding
6. 32:11Managing Dependencies
7. 33:53Contributing

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