[filearts]

As the author mentions, the real insight seems to be to switch from the file-based unit to the tree-based unit. This means asset building can be made more intelligent.

Now, I wonder if the same approach can be taken in gulp using vinyl-fs? Otherwise, I wonder if it might be worth plugging this tool as a specialized asset pipeline into existing grunt/gulp files.

[pmllr]

I have been working on replacing the whole production build pipeline as well. And since Grunt isn't a thing you can ignore these days I created a simple grunt wrapper that collapses the entire 200+ lines of config down to two config options: https://github.com/Munter/grunt-reduce

[iamstef]

I would be an advocate of this.

But.. competition is healthy, I am glad we are getting some great solutions in the space.