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title, ring, quadrant
| title | ring | quadrant |
|---|---|---|
| Grunt | hold | tools |
Grunt is a JavaScript task runner that automates repetitive tasks. While Grunt served us well for a good amount of projects, other alternatives such as Gulp emerged in the meantime and proved to be a better pick for the majority of our teams.
We have two main reasons for discarding Grunt in favor of other tools:
Speed
If a decent amount of tasks is reached, Grunt is known to run slower than other tools, because it heavily relies on I/O operations and always stores the result of one task as files on the disk.
Configuration
On large projects where a lot of automation is required, it can get very tedious to maintain complex and parallel running tasks. The grunt configuration files sometimes simply don´t gave us the flexibility that we needed.
Currently our preferred way to go is either simply use NPM scripts or rely on Webpack loaders for file preprocessing. For non-webpack projects we also utilize Gulp.