Hi everyone,
I've recently used Grunt (http://gruntjs.com/) to help automate my theming and it is slick. A quick demo of how you can use it to help speed up your development workflow. I'll show my workflow, which can be improved, and will show how grunt can be used with other tools (SMACSS, BEM, SCSS, livereload, KSS-Node, jshint, uglify, etc.).
Also, Drupal Camp WI - http://www.drupalcampwi.org/ - is coming up soon! Please register and submit a session. Session proposals will close in 2 weeks! (Friday July 24) Please come if you can help out with the camp. If you can't come, please let us know if you are interested in helping out by commenting on this Event.
See you there!
-Nate
Location:
Madison Central Library - http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/central
First floor conference room
Comments
If you can't make it to
If you can't make it to Madison tomorrow, and want to join the meet up virtually, I'll share a Google Hangout URL here when the meeting starts.
Thanks.
Midday
Midday meetups don't work well for my schedule, and the turnout is usually much higher in the evenings, right? I'd like to hear what you have to say, Nate, on Grunt. In a future meetup, we could do a compare/contrast with Gulp (http://gulpjs.com/), which I like a lot. So, I won't see you today, but an evening planning meeting would be doable...
Grunt vs Gulp TLDR; - both
Grunt vs Gulp
TLDR; - both are awesome.
I would suggest using whichever one the project you are working on supports. I picked Grunt because that is what the Drupal 7 Zurb Foundation theme supported. http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/gulp-vs-grunt/ does a good job of comparing them. If you are starting from scratch, pick whichever syntax makes the most sense to you (Code Vs Configuration in the article). Once you can learn one, learning the other will be pretty simple.
Evening Meetup
It depends on the meetup for the turnout. Yesterday there were about 10 of us that could make it. Since the last meetup was at night, I scheduled this one during the day. (trying to alternate the times) Next time it would be in the evening.
If anyone wants to join us
If anyone wants to join us remotely, https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/g4s3sqa7tb64wcizbmesovio3ma is the google hangout link.
session notes or recording
Was there a session recording or slide deck we can check out after the fact?