Grunt config files can easily become very verbose and disparate with related tasks scattered far apart. Without careful organisation and maintenance they can become quite unwieldy. In this post I’ll discuss some of the ways I’ve been experimenting with to make gruntfiles terser and keep related components together. I’ll introduce the grunt-inline-task-sugar plugin which I created to implement some of the ideas discussed. Anatomy of the alias task The grunt ‘alias’ task type is probably familiar to you: