This is a sample project that uses Grunt for automating common tasks.

This code has been extracted from my quickstart guide to Grunt: Power-Up Your Front-End Development With Grunt.

• Node and npm (see NodeJS
• Install grunt-cli globally: npm install -g grunt-cli

Once you have installed the requirements, checkout this repository and run npm install:

git clone [email protected]:belen-albeza/grunt-demo.git
cd grunt-demo
npm install

These are high level tasks that build up common work flows in development.

Run a server and re-compile asssets:

grunt server

The task above will lint your code, compile Sass stylesheets, run a local server, open a browser pointing to the app, and watch for changes to Sass file so they are automatically recompiled.

We can also run tests in the console, or run them in a browser:

grunt test
grunt test:browser

The tasks above will lint your code, and run your Jasmine specs. When using test:browser it will automatically run a local server and open the browser for you.

There's a task to generate a release (ie: code for production) of your app:

grunt release

That will compile your Sass stylesheets optimized for production, run your Jasmine tests and generate a zip you can use for deployment in a server.

Lint your code (see custom JSHint rules in .jshintrc):

grunt jshint

Clean all temporary and release files:

grunt clean

Compile your Sass stylesheets for development or production:

grunt sass:dev
grunt sass:prod