We've been working with JS-Automation for about a year now, specializing more and more on Grunt. But the more we relied on it, the more we had to go out of our way to get around problems inherent to Grunt. So we gave Gulp a chance and were very, very surprised.

Grunt (or Gulp) are a critical cornerstone for modern style web development - without these it's basically impossible to create anything complex. Let me show you some real life examples where we use Grunt in the development of 2sxc. 

To get started it helps to understand what these parts are for and what each one does. This short introduction will help you figure it out. 

To start automating all your JavaScript and CSS work with Grunt, you must first install nodeJs, npm and Grunt. Here's a the quick manual for it. 

2sxc 7.2 offers many new features for people developing Apps the modern way. This mainly includes support for tools like NPM, Grunt and Github, but also new data sources to cover more data-scenarios like caching, paging and CSV files.