Here's a scenario  lot of us developers find ourselves in: you built your amazing static site. And when it came to deciding on your build tool you chose Grunt,  because it simplifies the build process. Everybody else uses it, and there's a reason: it works wonders. Everything is set: jit-grunt - read our[ jit-grunt guide here](https://inspire.blufra.me/speed-up-your-entire-grunt-buil...

WordPress started as a humble blogging platform created by founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little on May 29, 2003 . Since that day WordPress has grown into a fully fledged application framework, and powers sites for brands like The New York Times, CNN, Forbes, Ebay and Mashable. As we got curious about how widel...

Bootstrap 4 is in alpha release and has a brand new set of media queries and breakpoints. Where Bootstrap 3 had them in pixels, the new release of the popular responsive framework boasts breakpoints in ems. Let's harness the power of these new media queries to serve an image of the right size based on the device a user views our site on. We're going to save a lot of bandwidth for the small devices...

Animation on the web has changed. It’s being moved from the realm of UI design and decoration, to the province of UX design. Where once it was a frivolity, it’s becoming an indispensable tool. No more dancing baby gifs. We’re using animation to tell users what’s going on in our interfaces, and why. We’re using it to tell them where to go and what to do next.  And yeah, we’re still making things move around on the screen for fun. This is all good ...

Every Grunt project averages 20 plugins per build. And - if you ever used Grunt, and chances are you have - you know it can ramp up to 30 plugins very quickly. Problem The standard Grunt way of loading plugins is adding a grunt.loadNpmTasks for each plugin you use. They look like this: