Google’s Dirk Ginader thinks great developers are lazy, and there’s nothing wrong with that. After all, would you rather spend your time working on the mundane stuff — like minification, linting, compilation, unit testing, etc — or actually developing your code?
In this presentation, Dirk will show you how to set up the Grunt JavaScript Task Runner so that you and your team can focus on the fun!
7. time
spent
task sizenon-geek
geek does it manually
makes fun of geek’s
complicated method
loses
does it
manually
gets
annoyed
writes script
to automate
runs script
wins
35. Gives you:
• Variables you can use in your script
i.e. version and name
• Dev Dependencies that allows you to
quickly install all required npm modules