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Peter is a freelance developer from the Netherlands building Ruby on Rails web applications for his clients. He also likes to play with front-end JavaScript frameworks, and is interested in new web technologies in general. In his spare time he rides his bicycle every day and he is also a passionate skydiver.
Peter's article
Give Grunt the Boot! A Guide to Using npm as a Build Tool
Peter Dierx demonstrates how flexible and powerful npm can be when used as a build tool and suggests that you might not actually need Grunt, Gulp and co.