<story><title>No more `grunt watch` – faster builds with the Broccoli asset pipeline</title><url>http://www.solitr.com/blog/2014/02/broccoli-first-release/index.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nemcue</author><text>Not often I see tools announced with such a thoroughly researched article. Great stuff!&lt;p&gt;I guess the problem these build tools are facing is the amount that people have invested in Grunt. There are just &amp;#x2F;so&amp;#x2F; many grunt tasks at this point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_puk</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve also been playing around with gulp, and whilst still in the &amp;#x27;trying to use it like grunt&amp;#x27; kind of mindset, I have seen some merit in using these stream based build tools.&lt;p&gt;Have to wonder why this all requires new build tools to achieve though.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s obviously technically possible (npm shows grunt-gulp which does exactly what you&amp;#x27;d think), so is the grunt architecture so firmly rooted in files that streams could not be leveraged, or is it something that will come in time?&lt;p&gt;Personally managed to get a nigh on perfect build process using grunt-watch, so no rush to move away.&lt;p&gt;Nice to see build tools still moving forward though.</text></comment>
<story><title>No more `grunt watch` – faster builds with the Broccoli asset pipeline</title><url>http://www.solitr.com/blog/2014/02/broccoli-first-release/index.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nemcue</author><text>Not often I see tools announced with such a thoroughly researched article. Great stuff!&lt;p&gt;I guess the problem these build tools are facing is the amount that people have invested in Grunt. There are just &amp;#x2F;so&amp;#x2F; many grunt tasks at this point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imjared</author><text>Yep- a search on npmjs shows not quite a dozen tasks for Broccoli while Grunt has hundreds of results. Not that quantity necessarily == quality but when it comes to a task runner, I need to, you know, run tasks.&lt;p&gt;Definitely awesome that people are trying to optimize in the devops space but just not sure I could be convinced to switch to something that isn&amp;#x27;t at least somewhat mature.</text></comment>