Node.js, a server-side JavaScript interpreter, revolutionizes traditional functioning. Influenced by systems like Ruby's Event Machine and Python's Twisted, it shares a similar design.
GruntJS is a JavaScript task runner that you can use to automate your front-end development workflow. Grunt works fine on Windows, because Node.js and npm work fine on Windows. Usually the problematic part is Cygwin, because it includes an outdated version of Node.js.