I’m Justin, a software engineer and entrepreneur based in Seattle. Mostly recently, I was the CEO of Ghost Inspector, an automated testing service that I launched in 2014 and ran through its acquisition in 2022. I’m taking a break now and focusing on other passions: Food, Travel, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and being a dad.
I’ve always liked the idea of being able to reuse Javascript code in both Node.js (on the backend) and the browser (on the frontend). I was surprised by just how easy it was to accomplish.
Grunt.js is a task runner that comes with various plugins for compiling, building, formatting, etc. within your project. I recently setup a simple deployment process using Grunt, so I thought I’d share the details.
Node.js runs on a single threaded event loop and leverages asynchronous calls for doing various things, like I/O operations. This is a powerful concept that enables gains in efficiency, but occasionally requires a bit more work on your end to deal with certain situations.
