May 2015 JS Hack Night

People talked about and hacked Task Runners.

Grunt isn’t dead even though no releases since 0.4.5 a year ago. Current work is slow and quiet, testing iojs and node 0.12 compatibility. There are always issues to work on.
webcompat.com project has good directory structure for grunt tasks (tasks are split up into little files, no giant gruntfile.js)
Check out Mozilla projects fxa-account-server and fxa-js-client as examples of larger projects with Grunt tasks.
Learn about npm shrink wrap with version locked dependencies
There are nodemon config files. And nodemon isn’t limited to restarting just node processes – try it with Go!
TWG is doing less Rails and more nodejs over the last year
Slush is a scaffolding tool built on top of Gulp. Plays similar role to yeoman.
general impression from devs is that Gulp runs stuff faster than Grunt
npm commands are becoming flexible enough to replace build tools in some projects
Read substack!