I've been using gulp instead of grunt on a few projects. Gulp is literally analogous to using pipes and redirection on the command line but you do it using java

I've been using gulp instead of grunt on a few projects. Gulp is literally analogous to using pipes and redirection on the command line but you do it using javascript. If you need more than that you might need grunt or some other build tool. But this simplicity makes the build process much more straight forward and easier to explain to others.