Grunt

In one word: automation. The less work you have to do when performing repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, linting, etc, the easier your job becomes. After you've configured

Installing Grunt

To install grunt first you must have NodeJs installed, NodeJS will have npm (node packaged modules) Run the following commands

• Install grunt-cli globally by running the following command npm install -g grunt-cli

• In you downloaded package from themeforest, navigate to grunt/ directory and copy both package.json gruntfile.js to your project root. e.g : getting_started folder

• Navigate to the root directory of your project, then run npm install.

Once you have successfully setup now you can use pages Grunt CLI commands to automate your task

Commands

Grunt Build

This will automatically minify your assets resources like css and js into a folder called dist

Grunt Watch

This will automatically compile the pages Less files on save

Grunt Less

This will compile the pages Less files on execute once

Your are free to customize the Grunt task to your need by editing the gruntfile.js in the root directory of getting_started

Troubleshooting

Should you encounter problems with installing dependencies or running Grunt commands, first delete the /node_modules/directory generated by npm. Then, rerun npm install.