Grunt - mmedrano9438/peripheral-brain GitHub Wiki

The reason for Gulp's current speed advantage is down to the fact that Gulp uses streams and handles tasks in memory, which means that only one file is written. Furthermore, Gulp can process several tasks at the same time, but Grunt will normally only handle one task at a time.

both automation tools that can help save time and avoid human error. They are used to define tasks to execute, such as copying files, adding banners, or replacing text. They are usually run manually from the command line.

Grunt focuses on configuration, while Gulp focuses on code.

Grunt was built around a set of [built-in, and commonly used tasks], while Gulp came around with the idea of enforcing nothing, but how community-developed micro-tasks should connect to each other.

The reason it is built on Node.js instead of npm, like Grunt, is because npm scripts are inefficient when executing multiple tasks.