Grunt Reviews & Product Details

It helps you easily automate the tasks you require repetitively, like compilation,linting and testing files, which helps me save time.

It has got a lot of pre-installed plugins for your help.

Once you install it with NodeJs and configure your tasks, it makes your working experience flawless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does not work unless you update its NPM modules and plugins to the latest version, which becomes problematic when you urgently require your work to be done.

Except for this, other things work fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is the best tool for automation of repetitive tasks. It provides various plugins to make jobs easier. It offers excellent support and documentation to get started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To achieve particular functionality, we have to write lots of code which is a huge negative. Sometimes it gets stuck at the launch screen. Also, the size of the configuration file is enormous compared to other JS task runners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yes its best tool...easy to use..very good for javascript development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Very good for javascript runner

2. Autonated minification

3. Good js compilation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great customer support and SASS compilation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The wait time for updates and plugin configuration files are longer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the fact that Grunt has got many file sizes which reduces on the folder which helps the page to load faster when browsing.

There is away it accelerates up the development workflow and improves the work rate of the projects.

Grunt plugin consists of limited infrastructure hence it is possible to work with a new code base

The Grunt plugins also helps us to perform tasks such as the minification, compilations are allows easy file testing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I hate it that whenever my npm packages are being updated, i have to wait till when the grunt plugin writer updates it which is a bit hectic.

The plugin also takes up huge data configuration and sometimes these configuration files are lengthy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Grunt offers the same functionality as npm but slighter faster although it is hard noticeable. It is also easier to to write configurations with grunt than npm Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

npm comes pre-configured in Nodejs which makes it very unlikely for developers to use grunt over npm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The flexibility and the ease of use after setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The time it take to setup and that the many files in the node_modules folder take ages if you want to sync the project with a backup service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've used Grunt in helping us maintain consistency between developers in formatting files, to help preload documents for websites, to help performance in files through minification, etc. There are so many plugins available to use for so many different cases it's amazing! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is quite a learning curve in using Grunt for the first time. Also, because of differences in machinery, sometimes a configuration on one person's machine will not run on another's. It's very odd and you'll go through headaches at times. But the time it does save is worth any effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Grunt's capabilities are phenomenal.

I have found the ability to define multiple tasks and combine various packages together has made my life easier when working with LESS, and most importantly when working with Javascript, JSX, and Babel.

I've found Grunt makes managing resources for web apps very simple, and often processes that get very tedious can be broken down so simply; and Grunt can take over sorting through everything, while I focus on developing and writing code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find that some packages can be tricky with each other; sometimes causing issues because of dependency differences.

One issue I find most irritating is when I want Grunt to work in the background, and I don't want to have to check the status of the task if there's any issues.

It can be difficult if there's any syntax errors, and the package throwing the error is not detailed enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When I lead a developers team in a company dedicated to create mobile and web apps, we were looking for ways to optimize the work done by them, not only in order to decrease the time dedicated to trivial tasks but to improve the performance of their work. While doing some research a couple of years ago we found out you can use Grunt to do all that. Since most of our web developers use JavaScript and Node, they were in capacity or writing tasks with grunt to achieve this automation capacity, so right now they optimize scripts and stylesheets and compile assets with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you are not a developer you can't use this, so this is only for software developers with medium or strong knowledge of JavaScript / Node JS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.