When you are new to front-end development and start mastering HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, the obvious next step is to put your hands on tools that most developers use to stay sane in this complex space. You too deserve to have more flexibility and features while writing your CSS sheets by using Less. You too deserve to optimize bandwidth by minifying your JS code. You too deserve to be able to automatically check that your JS code is good using JSHint.

Good introduction. And it has both Grunt and Gulp in one post. Even though it’s sponsored, but definitely good read. Favorited.

Source: JavaScript Workflow Automation Using Grunt and Gulp