Chapter 5
Create a Plug-in

As you’ve already seen, plug-ins let you share functionality across projects or with other people, easily extending Grunt’s features. In this chapter we’ll create a simple Grunt plug-in that lets us quickly open in a web browser the page we’re working on. This may seem superfluous, but it lets us explore the process of creating a plug-in, and it allows us to call out to an external program. Plus, when you’re done you’ll have a plug-in you can invoke as part of a larger process. For example, at the end of a build you can make your application’s start page open in the browser so you can see if things are working well.