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Grunt vs Pingy CLI: What are the differences?
Developers describe Grunt as "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. On the other hand, Pingy CLI is detailed as "The Simple Front End Build Tool". Gulp and Grunt and other heavyweight build tools are great for complicated build workflows. Sometimes you want something simpler that doesn't take lots of configuration to get up and running. That's Pingy CLI.
Grunt and Pingy CLI can be primarily classified as "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" tools.
Grunt and Pingy CLI are both open source tools. It seems that Grunt with 11.9K GitHub stars and 1.55K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Pingy CLI with 391 GitHub stars and 14 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 Pingy CLI
- Simple2
- No Configuration2
- Fast2
- Easy2
- No plugins needed2
- Just works2
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Cons of Grunt
- Poor mindshare/community support1