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I am very comfortable with make, my coworkers however are not. Every preprocessor comes with a command line interface, easily accessible and understood. The onl
by igl 12y ago
I am very comfortable with make, my coworkers however are not. Every preprocessor comes with a command line interface, easily accessible and understood.
The only useful feature of these build tools is hot reloading. `npm gaze` even provides a somewhat working fs.watch interface which works good across platforms.
I am not sure if that justifies 70mb of additional dependencies and the "we can solve that with a grunt plugin" mentality devs get. Our Gruntfile is 440 lines long :/
- niklasni1 12y agoI'm a novice-ish web developer with decent UNIX knowledge. For my latest Angular project which involved some CSS-preprocessing, I spent a few hours on learning the and setting up one of these tools. Then I found out what it was actually doing, and replaced it with a small shellscript that NPM calls.