Effective recipes to master Grunt
Wanting to get your web or Node.js projects automatically built, validated, optimised and deployed? Then the recipes in here will help! Every recipe has been built on a realistic project so you have to only copy and paste the code snippets to get up and running.
Download a sample PDFThe book is available in PDF, EPUB (for iPad) and MOBI (for Kindle). There is no DRM, so it's free to copy, print and share.
See how to generate reports for JavaScript and CSS validation, JavaScript complexity, and unit test coverage of your source code. The book also shows a number of recipes being integrated in Jenkins, a popular Continuous Integration tool, including running unit testing so that builds fail when tests fail.
The book is being published through leanpub following the lean methodology. That means that as more recipes get added you'll recieve them all for free. In addition you can let me know what recipes you'd like to see and I'll aim to add them to future updates.
Each recipe has been written and tested on real world projects. With the "Ultimate Edition" you'll get the source code for these projects so you can see exactly what was done to get them working.
Each project is a git repository with multiple branches. This means that you can see the step by step changes made to each project in order to get it to it's final stage. Each recipe highlights the branch to change to each at the different stages so you can walkthrough the book and code together.
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The book goes beyond just simple tasks like concatenation to demonstrating how to use multiple testing frameworks and JavaScript frameworks, integrating recipes into Continuous Integration, and generating deployable build artifacts
Chances are you already have a project in mind that you want to add Grunt to. The eBook shows step by step how to install and add Grunt to an existing sample project, showing how to take a directory of source artifacts and copy them to a deployment folder.
We all know that testing our code is important, but for some reason it can be hard to do it. The unit testing recipe's show how to setup various frameworks like Jasmine, Selenium and Mocha, how to get them running as your code and finally how to integrate them into Continuous Integration.
The book demonstrates how to add compilation support to your CoffeeScript projects. If you buy the "Book and Source Code" you'll get to see two complete MVC based examples of a Todo app written in both languages so you can see real world examples being built up step by step.
The book comes in two forms
Standard Edition
Ultimate Edition
Matt Goldspink is a full stack developer based in London, UK. He has worked in investment banks, startups and is currently a full time consultant, specialising in training and technical writing.
I wrote this book after using Grunt in a large enterprise and a startup to replace aging and painfully slow Ant based build systems. I loved that all the plugins for JSHint, Compass, concat/minify and more were available straight away. As I started to use it more I realised that there was a lot more power and potential to Grunt than just a build system. I wanted to share my own learnings and insights in the hope that some or all of the recipe's in the book resonate with you and inspire you to automate more of you daily tasks.