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		UUMMUU on July 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JavaScript developers are incredible at problem so... I'm lost as to why Grunt is a problem. I tried to put all of my build scripts in the package.json but moving to Grunt has been incredibly useful.

kentor on July 9, 2015 [–]

Because "code over configuration". Personally I'm not a fan of Grunt's API which requires huge json files where keys mean special things. It feels very ad hoc and ugly. Gulp's API is like 5 functions.

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