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Grunt vs Maid: What are the differences?
What is Grunt? The JavaScript Task Runner. The less work you have to do when performing repetitive tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, linting, etc, the easier your job becomes. After you've configured it, a task runner can do most of that mundane work for you—and your team—with basically zero effort.
What is Maid? Markdown driven task runner. Create a Maidfile and define bash or JavaScript tasks using Markdown.
Grunt and Maid belong to "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" category of the tech stack.
Grunt and Maid are both open source tools. Grunt with 11.9K GitHub stars and 1.55K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Maid with 1.95K GitHub stars and 48 GitHub forks.
Very simple to use and a great way to optimize repetitive tasks, like optimize PNG images, convert to WebP, create sprite images with CSS.
I didn't choose Grunt because of the fact it uses files and Gulp uses memory, making it faster for my use case since I need to work with 3000+ small images. And the fact Gulp has 32k+ stars on GitHub.
Pros of Grunt
- Configuration288
- Open source176
- Automation of minification and live reload166
- Great community60
- SASS compilation7
Pros of Maid
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Cons of Grunt
- Poor mindshare/community support1