Learning Path:Building Grunt-ified Web Application Workflows

Description

Don’t like having to use repetitive parts of a development workflow? If so, this Learning Path is for you.

Packt’s Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and step-wise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.

Why go with Grunt? Grunt, the JavaScript Task Runner written in Node.js, is the industry-standard tool to perform important repetitive tasks such as minification, compilation, and unit testing. Its wealth of free plugins available online empowers you to reduce the development time and minimize human errors—just what a developer wants.

This Learning Path will start by helping you build your workflow from installing and using Grunt to a basic degree. You’ll move on to advanced configurations, creating your own plugins, and building high-quality applications and sites.

The goal of this Learning Path is to make you a Grunt expert—from complex configuration to plugin authoring.

About The Author

Dan Wellman

Dan Wellman is a JavaScript developer based in the UK. He has a decade of hard-earned experience working for companies big and small including local boutique design agencies, and more recently, the Skype division of Microsoft.

Dan has written and co-written nine books for Packt, mostly centered on jQuery and jQuery UI, and he regularly creates immersive video tutorials for various websites and companies.

Bertrand Chevrier

Bertrand Chevrier is a professional JavaScript developer with 10 years of experience in large-scale software development and architecture. He uses Grunt every day for his professional and personal projects. As a Grunt plugin author, he’s part of the Grunt community and his work is widely used. He also used to teach Grunt to his team mates and speaks about Grunt in conferences and user groups.

He's also a strong believer and advocate of free and open source software. By day he works for OAT SA, the company behind TAO, the open source e-testing platform, where he’s in charge of front-end development and architecture, and by night he contributes to open source software.

What You Will Learn!

• Create a development workflow in which you can lint and build your source files, run your unit tests, and preview your site in a web server, all from the command line
• Make the most of Node.js to create scalable and real-time applications
• Identify common issues and problems in Grunt and brush up your troubleshooting skills
• Author, release, and publish your own Grunt plugin
• Debug a Grunt configuration to detect possible conceptual issues
• Clean up, optimize, and organize the Grunt configuration to get efficient workflows

Who Should Attend!

• If you’re a JavaScript developer looking at managing and automating complex workflows for large-scale applications, this Learning Path is for you.

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