As my work has transitioned from traditional web apps to thick-client Javascript apps (primarily using Angular), Grunt has become essential in my workflow. Grunt is a nice tool and it gets the job done. But there was always something I didn’t like about it that I couldn’t quite articulate until I discovered Gulp.js. Whereas in Grunt, you create a json configuration file, Gulp is just a script. It’s code. And it really fits my programmer brain better. In this post, I’ll convert a basic Gruntfile that compiles and minifies Coffeescript into Gulp.