Grunt is not only a weird noise you make when attempting to do something physically demanding, it's also an amazing command line tool that allows you to automate a lot of the tedious duties we need to do as web developers.
- gruntjs.com
- Grunt for People Who Think Things Like Grunt are Weird and Hard
- Get Up And Running With Grunt
Install Node.js on your machine.
npm install -g grunt-cli - A Node NPM command that will install the grunt command line commands to your system.
grunt - Will run the default task set up in your Gruntfile.js (same as grunt default).
grunt <taskname> - Will run a task specified in the Gruntfile.js so something like grunt sass will run the Sass task once and then exit out.
grunt watch - Similarly will continuously watch your directory to dynamically run watch tasks (defined in Gruntfile.js) as files are modified.