Use grunt (to match ember app kit) about ember-blog HOT 3 CLOSED

Hey @adamrneary ! Sorry for the slow response. I don't know a lot about the underlying technical differences between Brunch and Grunt, but I've built about 3 Ember apps on Grunt and about 6 Ember apps on Brunch. Brunch has massively outperformed Grunt in terms of speed, caching, etc, everytime. Quite a few people have been building Ember apps on a Broccoli framework too, which is similar to Brunch.

Brunch has been especially good for compiling 40+ scss partials into a single css file very quickly. Grunt would take a few seconds to do this and overall development has been much faster with Brunch.

I think Grunt has the advantage of having a lot more plug-and-play plugins, though they can all work on Brunch with a small Brunch plugin set up like this.

Would the output of the app change in terms of the static files that get produced? And do you know what the dev environment performance of Ember App kit is like compared to something built on Brunch?

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Sounds good! I'll give it a play and see how it goes…

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To give you a benchmark, I have a ~500 file app (5.1mb of js, scss, and hbs) compiling after each file change in 200-300ms with Brunch.

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