Prepare Yourself for ASP.NET 5 - Part 3 (Grunt, Gulp)

Modern web applications extensively use JavaScript and CSS. While working on a project often you need to perform operations such as copying files from one folder to another, compiling Less and Sass files to plain CSS, minifying JavaScript and CSS files and more. These operations are called tasks and can be automated using tools known as task runners.

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