Using Static Analysis to Give Build Tools a Brain

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Imagine a world where your build tools like Grunt and Gulp were actually smart; where they took care of getting your code built for production without you writing configuration files. Whether you’re starting a new project, or expanding an existing codebase, build tool configuration files (like Gruntfiles) become yet another item to maintain. It doesn’t have to be this way. In this talk, I’ll discuss how to make Grunt adapt to our app's needs and generate its own configuration file.

We'll take the gruntwork out of using Grunt and apply the same techniques to Gulp.

After an introduction to Grunt and Esprima, I’ll focus in on the techniques used to automatically compile your preprocessors, generate your JavaScript bundles, and download your vendor libraries like jQuery and Backbone.

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