How To Harness The Machines: Being Productive With Task Runners
Task runners are the heroes (or villains, depending on your point of view) that quietly toil behind most web and mobile applications. Task runners provide value through the automation of numerous development tasks such as concatenating files, spinning up development servers and compiling code.
In this article, well cover Grunt, Gulp, Webpack and npm scripts. Well also provide some examples of each one to get you started. Near the end, Ill throw out some easy wins and tips for integrating ideas from this post into your application.
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