Jurie-Jan Botha - Grunt.js Cookbook - 2015

Grunt.js Cookbook

Year: 2015
Author: Jurie-Jan Botha
Category: Web Development
Publisher: Packt Publishing
ISBN: 9781783286515
Language English
Format: PDF / EPUB / MOBI
Quality: initially computer (eBook) (converted)
Interactive contents: Yes
Number of pages: 286

Description: About This Book

- Describes how to implement automation solutions for common web application development tasks
- Explores configuration variations that are available to the plugins used in each recipe
- A practical guide with clear and concise instructions to build entire web applications easily using Grunt.js

Who This Book Is For

This book will be useful to anyone who wishes to build anything from a static website to a more modern web application. Some basic JavaScript experience is preferable and some rudimentary knowledge of the Node.js platform could also come in handy.

What You Will Learn

- Automate CSS generation
- Manage asynchronous work inside a task
- Automate HTML and CSS template compilation
- Manage entire web applications using Grunt
- Automate various levels of testing
- Build and publish custom tasks and plugins
- Automate CoffeeScript and LiveScript code compilation

In Detail

A web application can quickly turn into a complex orchestration of many smaller components, each one requiring its own bit of maintenance. Grunt allows you to automate all the repetitive tasks required to get everything working together by using JavaScript, the most popular programming language.

Grunt Cookbook offers a host of easy-to-follow recipes for automating repetitive tasks in your web application's development, management, and deployment processes. This book will introduce you to methods that can be used to automate basic processes and your favorite tools. By following the recipes, you will soon be comfortable using Grunt to perform a wide array of advanced tasks in a range of different scenarios.


Table of Contents
1: Getting Started with Grunt
2: File Management
3: Templating Engines
4: Generating CSS and JavaScript
5: Running Automated Tests
6: Deployment Preparations
7: Deploying to the End User
8: Creating Custom Tasks
9: Authoring Plugins
10: Static Sites