Add Grunt and NPM to manage dependencies
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Can we add e.g. Grunt to run tasks such as minifying and NPM to manage dependencies?
It wouldn't really be for the python, it is more a better way to automate and manage the front end code and build process for the site.
Why not use Python toolchain for that?
Great suggestion danjford. The website and its dependencies are very simple and slow-changing currently. So, I don't think we need tools. However, I can most certainly see a future where this would be necessary.
Can anybody point to a tutorial about this Grunt/Gulp etc. automation?
@techtonik this smashing magazine article may be a good place to start.
@danjford looks like Grunt is just fabric, but Grunt files don't look readable to me.
Have you seen http://blog.keithcirkel.co.uk/why-we-should-stop-using-grunt/ and http://brunch.io/ - they say that Grunt/Gulp is an overkill.
I don't think fabric and Grunt are that similar, perhaps it's because you aren't that familiar with Grunt?
I have seen their posts, however for every library there will always be a post against it. But at the same time there are going to be posts elsewhere which are for it. As for brunch.io, they are going to be against Grunt as they are a competitor.
If you want to have a look, @techtonik and @s16h, I've done an implementation of py-must-watch with npm and grunt.
@techtonik Thanks for those links, as a Python dev the whole JS ecosystem is a mystery to me. That first link really helped me understand what all is going on.
@nloadholtes Python ecosystem also looks strange from outside. I know people who think that setup.py is just weird. But the question about JS ecosystem is important for maintainability. I understand that SASS and Coffeescript need to be compiled and minified, but when I tried to understand what all this stuff for https://grtp.co/ I realized that JS ecosystem is beyond my understanding. Now it is more clear thanks to @danjford mentioning it again.