Why grunt? - acecode/grunt GitHub Wiki

It’s far too easy to create a gist or one-file repository and promise yourself that you’ll add linting and unit tests later.

Doing all this stuff manually is a total pain, as is building everything into a gigantic Makefile / Jakefile / Cakefile / Rakefile / ?akefile that's maintained across numerous projects.

With grunt, all the excuses you've ever made just disappear. Instead of being a chore, creating a new project and performing repetitive but necessary tasks such as linting, unit testing, concatenating and minifying files become trivially easy.

Why not something else?

How do i get started?

To get started, take a look at the getting started guide. In addition, check out the example Gruntfiles() which highlight a number of fairly common configurations.