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Re: Grunt 1.0.0 released

#51

Hey! Core maintainer here. I see a lot of comments are basically saying our project is obsolete or sucks. That does not stop us from working on Grunt though. We are still seeing record download numbers, even with the 2 year old releases. This is why we felt it was important to keep releasing this software and supporting developers. For those who support and use Grunt - huge thank you! Pick up your free open-source co…

Keep doing what you're doing - competition is a good thing.

Re: Grunt 1.0.0 released

#52

Hey! Core maintainer here. I see a lot of comments are basically saying our project is obsolete or sucks. That does not stop us from working on Grunt though. We are still seeing record download numbers, even with the 2 year old releases. This is why we felt it was important to keep releasing this software and supporting developers. For those who support and use Grunt - huge thank you! Pick up your free open-source co…

I don't personally use Grunt, but your attitude is highly commendable.

Re: Grunt 1.0.0 released

#53
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had reservations about using make for node builds until I got berated by another curmudgeon on here, who kindly showed me all the tricks necessary to implement the rules I needed. I'm very very happy I switched to make. I think part of the issue is that I (and I suspect many others) though I knew basically how make works, except that I had no idea about % patterns, the patsubst function, etc.

Can you share any of those tricks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10543908

Re: Grunt 1.0.0 released

#54
post #47

I don't see the hype behind build tools. I still use Grunt on just about any project because I can just copy/paste the entire build process from another project and never come back to it again. Don't see much point in switching to anything else.

Honestly there isn't much point. You can do the same stuff on grunt, gulp and apparently webpak. Personally, to avoid the extra mountain of dependencies, my newer projects just use scripts now to do building and I just simply reference the same depdencies grunt and all wrap. It's quite easy.

Honestly there is some utility to using these build systems as they make it a tiny bit easier than just writing a script...but that's about it. It's really easy to write your own scripts to do the same thing with barely any extra code.

Re: Grunt 1.0.0 released

#55

brunch.io ftw. its been out there the whole time, way easier than grunt and gulp.

Brunch is great but last I used it there was no support for NPM modules. So I built Parched on top of Gulp to mirror the Brunch experience.

Re: Grunt 1.0.0 released

#56

Hey! Core maintainer here. I see a lot of comments are basically saying our project is obsolete or sucks. That does not stop us from working on Grunt though. We are still seeing record download numbers, even with the 2 year old releases. This is why we felt it was important to keep releasing this software and supporting developers. For those who support and use Grunt - huge thank you! Pick up your free open-source co…

Thanks for your hard work. I used your project for a little while and it was very helpful.

Re: Grunt 1.0.0 released

#57

Hey! Core maintainer here. I see a lot of comments are basically saying our project is obsolete or sucks. That does not stop us from working on Grunt though. We are still seeing record download numbers, even with the 2 year old releases. This is why we felt it was important to keep releasing this software and supporting developers. For those who support and use Grunt - huge thank you! Pick up your free open-source co…

Thank you so much for your work and dedication. Don't listen to the haters, Grunt is a fantastic tool <3

Re: Grunt 1.0.0 released

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post #16

I am so pleased I abandoned grunt/gulp. Life is so much simpler with simple build commands. Now I just run whatever I need using npm run.

For simple things, yes npm run is a better option. But with more and more Tasks i prefer cleaner and better readable solution. Depending on the kind of project and tasks i use grunt / gulp or webpack.

I've not found anything that can't be accomplished with npm run. I mostly use browserify, the commands for which can easily be run from a single line. For more complicated things all I have to do is create a js file and add it to the scripts object. It is really much simpler than grunt/gulp make it out to be. AND I don't have to rely on plugins being available I can use any node module.

Re: Grunt 1.0.0 released

#59
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post #9

Obsolete before it hit 1.0. While grunt/gulp was fun for a while... i am not looking back to our 800 line grunt file, complicated async configuration and the tons of dev-dependencies. Webpack blew everything out of the water. 80 lines of config, hot-reloading, code-spliting, hash-filenames... Looking forward to whats coming next.

Holy crap! I left a company 6 months ago and we were using Gulp there, and it was, as far as I am aware, the hot thing to use (I'm no front-end dev). Now you're telling me it is obsolete?! Javascript world is silly.

It isn't obsolete. Webpack just reduces task runners even more, since webpack takes care of taking your source, copying your source to your build/dist/whatever directory, minifying everything, creating hashes in filenames, being able to update html with those hash names, etc.. Basically, if you can use `import` on a file in Webpack 2 or `require` in either Webpack 1/2 you don't need Gulp/Grunt to do that work.

I personally work on things that still need other aspects of the task runners.

Re: Grunt 1.0.0 released

#60

Hey! Core maintainer here. I see a lot of comments are basically saying our project is obsolete or sucks. That does not stop us from working on Grunt though. We are still seeing record download numbers, even with the 2 year old releases. This is why we felt it was important to keep releasing this software and supporting developers. For those who support and use Grunt - huge thank you! Pick up your free open-source co…

Well done, been using Grunt since end of 2012
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