A brief history of Grunt I realized that a task-based build tool with built-in, commonly used tasks was the approach that would work best for me Ben Alman March 2012 Single, global Grunt: $ npm install -g grunt Configuration over code grunt.initConfig({ lint: { src: 'src/<%= pkg.name %>.js' }, concat: { src: [ '<banner:meta.banner>', '<file_strip_banner:src/<%= pkg.name %>.js>' ], dest: '<%= pkg.n