Grunt Alternatives

Grunt is described as 'Automates tasks like minification, compilation, unit testing, and linting through a Gruntfile. Huge ecosystem with hundreds of plugins available' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Grunt for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best Grunt alternative is Gulp.js, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Grunt are Webpack, esbuild, Brunch.io and Parcel JS.

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  1. Gulp.js icon
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    A toolkit to automate & enhance your workflow. Leverage gulp and the flexibility of JavaScript to automate slow, repetitive workflows and compose them into efficient build pipelines.

    14 Gulp.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Node.JS
    • Self-Hosted
     
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  2. Webpack icon
     19 likes

    Webpack is a module bundler for modern JavaScript applications. When webpack processes your application, it recursively builds a dependency graph that includes every module your application needs, then packages all of those modules into a small number of bundles — often only one...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. esbuild icon
     3 likes

    An extremely fast JavaScript bundler and minifier.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Brunch.io icon
     7 likes

    Brunch lets you focus on what matters most — solving real problems instead of messing around with the glue.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Node.JS
     
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    Comments about Brunch.io as an Alternative to Grunt
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    Easy to use, and very much faster

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Brunch.io is Free and Open SourceGrunt is also Free and Open Source
  5. Parcel JS icon
     5 likes

    Parcel combines a great out-of-the-box development experience with a scalable architecture that can take your project from just getting started to massive production application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. pypyr icon
     1 like

    pypyr is an open source task-runner for automation pipelines. pypyr lets you script sequential tasks in a simple yaml format with conditional execution, loops, error handling and retries for any step in your pipeline.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Rspack icon
     1 like

    Rspack is a high performance JavaScript bundler written in Rust. It offers strong compatibility with the webpack ecosystem, allowing for seamless replacement of webpack, and provides lightning fast build speeds.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Rust
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Feri icon
     6 likes

    The easy to use build tool for web files.

    Cost / License

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Node.JS
    • Self-Hosted
    • npm
     
  9. Broccoli icon
     2 likes

    A fast, reliable asset pipeline, supporting constant-time rebuilds and compact build definitions. Comparable to the Rails asset pipeline in scope, though it runs on Node and is backend-agnostic.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Node.JS
    • npm
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Turbopack icon
     1 like

    Turbopack is an incremental bundler optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust by the creators of webpack and Next.js at Vercel.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
     
  11. Smelt icon
     1 like

    Smelt is a simple and extensible task runner optimized for chip development workflows. Smelt makes it easy to programmatically define arbitrarily many test variants, run those tests in parallel, and analyze their results.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
     
  12. Mimosa icon
     2 likes

    A lightning-fast build tool for modern web development. Mimosa includes support for JavaScript, CSS, and template compilers, bower, linting, optimization, serving, RequireJS support, and Live Reload. It is also modular and pluggable for authoring your own functionality.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Node.JS
     
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