Improving WordPress Development Workflow with Grunt
Slides from a presentation at WordCamp Austin 2014. Presentation discussed the benefits of using Grunt and then discussed how Grunt can be implemented into theme development.
live editing on server ! Benefits ! Quick to fix bug ! Cons ! More prone to error ! Longer to validate changes ! Must manually refresh browser ! Not source-controlled
! Reload browser on save ! Sync between development/production ! Deploy to WordPress repository ! Package to zip ! Get latest source from plugins/frameworks
plugins available ! Synchronous and I/O intensive ! Yeoman support ! Virtual file transformations soon ! Code over config ! 300+ plugins available ! Files usually transformed in memory (faster) ! Yeoman support likely to come