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Gavin Ralston
28,770 PointsGrunt vs Gulp vs npm
So this article on not using js build tools makes a compelling case for not relying on build tools with scary config files.
Would npm be a good way to introduce the use of a service like this, or is that just one guys' convincing but not-necessarily-accurate opinion?
Gavin Ralston
28,770 PointsSee, I was thinking there could be inadvertent mountain-building there, but the logic that "you're building solutions for solutions and creating massive, unwieldly dependency trees" is fairly convincing. Especially when you just see the glimpse of the npm configs being a trivial key/value pair.
If it's really a "99% of the time solution" I'd say why not start there at least?
Robert Richey
Courses Plus Student 16,352 PointsRobert Richey
Courses Plus Student 16,352 PointsThe complaints about grunt and gulp come across as 'mountains out of mole-hills' type rhetoric - but, I'm genuinely interested in Keith's followup blog post How to Use npm as a Build Tool. The syntax he uses looks great.