Widely used by small, medium, and large web development teams ranging from Bootstrap to Walmart, Grunt is a javascript automated task runner. The node.js package is used during the development and production phases to automate repetitive tasks such as minification, concatenation, unit testing, linting, and more. This presentation will run through the installation, setup, and use of Node.js and Grunt on a simple website. Then we'll look at an example of significantly improving the performance of a more complex website.

Marcos del Cristo is a software developer and web specialist at the College of Veterinary Medicine. His responsibilities consist of the design of applications for the college, including the UI design, web development, front and back-end engineering, and infrastructure.