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Grunt 1.2 Grunt In Real Live - Examples with Excel and JavaScript Automation (video)

Jan 07

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this is a repost from the 2sxc blog

Development of modern web applications is extremely different from old-school component-based development. Basically the development of modern web apps needs a lot of automation - usually done in Grunt or Gulp. In the following short video I would like to show you some real life examples so that you may get started yourself. I recommend that you

Watch the video
The install the basics according to my previous blog
And if you want to understand more about the components and their role, read this blog

And I'm really serious: I want you to start using grunt (or gulp), it's really, really crucial. So feel free to ask questions, I'll answer them all!

Love from Switzerland,
Daniel

PS: Links you may need: nodeJS, npm (no link, it's included in nodeJS), grunt or the alternative gulp, bower

Daniel Mettler grew up in the jungles of Indonesia and is founder and CEO of 2sic internet solutions in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, an 20-head web specialist with over 800 DNN projects since 1999. He is also chief architect of 2sxc (see forge), an open source module for creating attractive content and DNN Apps.

Comments

Good overview. I switched from Grunt to Gulp a few months ago. It seems to run faster.

One excellent plugin is LiveReload, which works in conjunction with a browser extension for instantaneous loading of css/less/sass changes. No refresh button needed.

Also, one thing I learned early on is to not install grunt in a portal folder if you are doing skin development. The thousands of files generated under node_modules directory get indexed in the file system, which swells the view state of any DNN file picker controls (made admining some pages impossible). I don't know if that is still the case, but I experienced that issue a few years back.

Erik Hinds Thursday, January 7, 2016 2:04 PM (link)

@erik that's a good tip about keeping the files out. I think dnn should start providing an ignore list to ignore certain folders in the index (maybe this exists already?). That way we could say ignore things like
[portal content root]/2sxc
[portal content root]/adam
[any folder]/node_modules
[any folder]/bower_components

Daniel Mettler Friday, January 8, 2016 1:39 AM (link)

I'm with Erik: I much prefer Gulp to Grunt. But definitely something people should be looking at.

Joe Brinkman Monday, January 11, 2016 9:25 AM (link)

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