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Hi Torn, I have not used Mimosa before but it looks quite nice! I have not spent much time with it beyond going through the steps of setting up a new project.

Hi Torn, I have not used Mimosa before but it looks quite nice! I have not spent much time with it beyond going through the steps of setting up a new project. Grunt won't be very interesting if Mimosa is meeting your immediate needs well. The only thing I can say like about it (at this stage) over Mimosa is that you start with nothing under Grunt and build your workflow from scratch. It doesn't pre-install coffeescript/livescript/typescript compilers and so on as its own dependencies - you install their corresponding grunt tasks (e.g. grunt-contrib-coffee) when you decide you need them. Bower is great to have in a project to manage your front-end package dependencies if you don't already have something similar in your dev environment.

dbashford 13y ago
Starting with nothing and building everything from scratch is the opposite of what Mimosa is trying to do for you. The idea with Mimosa is you are coding straight away rather than hunting down plugins/modules, or finding generators ;), and then figuring out how to configure them. All those compilers are available, but if you don't need, for instance, TypeScript compiling, then the TypeScript stuff stays out of the way. No harm having those extra things. Mimosa lacks Bower integration, though. Bower integration is nice for managing those sorts of things.
- disintegrator 13y ago
  I agree with what you say. If I failed to do so already, please allow me to state that yeoman and its generators (including my generator) as well as Mimosa may very well be an "expression of opinion" of various developers. The opinion is regarding what makes a productive workflow. This will certainly change over time or, at least, on a project-by-project basis. In a different comment I made on this submission, I mention that if you are a developer that has worked with Jade, CoffeeScript and LESS - and enjoyed doing so - then my generator may make the process of getting up and running with them a bit faster for your next project.

dbashford 13y ago

Starting with nothing and building everything from scratch is the opposite of what Mimosa is trying to do for you. The idea with Mimosa is you are coding straight away rather than hunting down plugins/modules, or finding generators ;), and then figuring out how to configure them. All those compilers are available, but if you don't need, for instance, TypeScript compiling, then the TypeScript stuff stays out of the way. No harm having those extra things. Mimosa lacks Bower integration, though. Bower integration is nice for managing those sorts of things.

disintegrator 13y ago
I agree with what you say. If I failed to do so already, please allow me to state that yeoman and its generators (including my generator) as well as Mimosa may very well be an "expression of opinion" of various developers. The opinion is regarding what makes a productive workflow. This will certainly change over time or, at least, on a project-by-project basis. In a different comment I made on this submission, I mention that if you are a developer that has worked with Jade, CoffeeScript and LESS - and enjoyed doing so - then my generator may make the process of getting up and running with them a bit faster for your next project.