I've found Grunt useful as I ended up using it for a large variety of tasks mostly related to building. However I also decided to stop using it but for a differ

I've found Grunt useful as I ended up using it for a large variety of tasks mostly related to building. However I also decided to stop using it but for a different reason than the article. Grunt and Gulp kinda create a siloed set of tasks that are annoying to run in-line with the rest of the node application (different contexts). I never think I'm going to run into it until I somehow run into a situation where I want to run or re-run a specific task on an application that is already deployed. To do so now I have to install grunt in a production system and restart the application...or I simply code up my tasks into reusable bits of JavaScript that the normal application can use plus I can use npm to run them under normal conditions. Honestly Grunt does help get things going really quickly but there are a lot of immature things about it and Gulp.