Grunt (software)

It uses a command-line interface to run custom tasks defined in a file (known as a Gruntfile).

[5] Companies and projects that use Grunt include Adobe Systems, jQuery, Twitter, Mozilla, Bootstrap, Cloudant, Opera, WordPress, Walmart, and Microsoft.

[5] Grunt was originally created by Ben Alman in 2012 as an efficient alternative to simplify writing and maintaining a suite of JavaScript build process tasks in one huge file.

Once defined, these tasks can be run from the command line by simply executing grunt .

The following is an example of a Gruntfile written in JavaScript that shows how to load plugins, create custom tasks and configure them: In the above example, executing the grunt command will run which has been defined above as a combination of both and .

Ant has a little over a hundred built-in tasks that are better suited to projects with a Java build structure.

Rake doesn't have the concept of plugins or predefined tasks which means all the required actions must be written and then executed.

This makes the developments costly when compared to Grunt which has a large set of reusable plugins.