You can use whatever you want to build--the author of the post didn't offer any reasons not to use grunt/gulp/broccoli; they just said they don't recommend it.

You can use whatever you want to build--the author of the post didn't offer any reasons not to use grunt/gulp/broccoli; they just said they don't recommend it. If those tools are currently doing what you want, then it's a waste of your time to switch to another system. That said, if you really want to switch and you're using npm (since you mentioned JavaScript), you can set up a dead simple build system just with bash/npm/JavaScript: http://blog.keithcirkel.co.uk/how-to-use-npm-as-a-build-tool/ http://blog.keithcirkel.co.uk/how-to-use-npm-as-a-build-tool...