Node.js Install npm globally if you don’t already have it (check versions with node -v and npm -v) Run npm init command to initialize the package.json file to provide information about the project and help manage the dependencies… example… { “name”: “my_project”, “version”: “0.0.0”, “devDependencies”: { “gulp”: “~3.8.8” }, “dependencies”: { “jquery”: “~2.1.3”, “react”: “~0.13.1” } } devDependencies: These are […]

Change Default Listening Port Go to MAMP > Preferences > Ports and set Apache Port to be 80. Set up Localhosts in Hosts File Edit your hosts file so that you have some domains that will resolve to your local web server… sudo pico /etc/hosts Add the domains you want to resolve to your localhost… 127.0.0.1 […]

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Install the Grunt command line tool (requires node.js installed on your machine)… sudo npm install grunt-cli -g Create package.json in root of project (list of Grunt plugin dependencies) npm install (install the dependencies) Create Gruntfile.js in root of project (configuration) Basically, you need three different functions to work with Grunt: grunt.initConfig, grunt.loadNpmTasks, and grunt.registerTask Resources Grunt: A Build Tool […]

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