In this article, we’ll look at how to use Grunt in your project to automate some of your repetitive tasks. We’ll look at what Grunt is, how to setup Grunt and then create a simple project with Grunt doing the heavy lifting of the some of the tasks.

Grunt is a task runner that has a ton of plugins for doing things like compiling LESS/SASS into CSS, concatenating JavaScript, minifying, etc. It also has a package for watching files (the same way CodeKit and Prepros does) and firing off certain tasks when they’re modified.