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over 9 years ago from Allan Grinshtein, Founder at LayerVault
+1 pt for you :)
Totally in the same boat, except I was using CodeKit to minify all of my assets. Switch to grunt then found gulp a week later. I won't be switching away from Gulp anytime soon. If you haven't already check out my stupid simple setup for gulp. http://imjakechapman.com/quick-intro-to-gulp-js/
Thanks for this!
you betcha! Hope it was helpful. More in depth one being posted over this weekend on notifying errors on minification, livereloading browser etc...
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I tried a bunch of similar static site generators: mixure, wintersmith, yeoman, middleman, roots, etc etc. They all fell short in some way or another.
Then I taught myself to use grunt.js. It was kind of a PITA to get the hang of (apparently gulp.js is way easier) but I definitely saw the light. Grunt is what a lot of these other tools use "under the hood", you define the things you want to do ahead of time (for ex: "compile my coffeescript and scss, then move the images in this folder to another folder") and it does them when your source files change. My advice: ditch the fluff, just learn how to use a task runner to compile your files yourself :)
Here's my boilerplate to help you get started. It does stylus, jade, coffeescript, a web server, and live reload out of the box: https://github.com/sampl/grunt-boilerplate. AWS deployment with one command is pretty straightforward, ask me if you need help!