Adam Simpson is a frontend developer working for Sparkbox in lovely Dayton, OH. He digs React.js, ancient text-editors, cookies, and his wife Christi (not necessarily in that order).
In this article, Adam Simpson will cover Grunt, Gulp, Webpack and npm scripts, providing some examples of each one to get you started into task runners. Task runners can solve real problems. Adam has used them to compile different builds of a JavaScript application, depending on whether the target was production or local development, or to compile Handlebars templates. Task runners are constantly evolving and changing, and in this article Adam will try to cover the most used ones in the current zeitgeist. Happy task running!
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