I gave this talk at WordCamp Bari 2019 in Bari, Italy, in Italian (original title: Grunt: automazione per sviluppatori “pigri”).
The Italian and rather less rushed version of the Grunt talk I had given as a lightning session at WordCamp London 2018.
A developer’s working day is full of repetitive, boring operations. Tools like Grunt exist to automate exactly those, so the programmer can concentrate on the parts of the job that actually need a human. Grunt is a very flexible task runner thanks to its plugin architecture, and it was widely used in WordPress plugin and theme development.
What I covered
- What a task runner is and where it fits in a WordPress project
- Building up a Gruntfile task by task, from asset compilation to release packaging
- Translation files, linting and the checks you want running before you ship
- Honest limits: what automation will not fix
Slides and recording
- Slides (SlideShare)
- Session page on the WordCamp Bari 2019 site