separated js & css into dist & dist-dev: minified versions go into public/dist and non-minified (dev) versions go into public/dist-dev. new grunt task "dev" creates public/dist-dev and when node-boot starts if it is in "development" NODE_ENV it uses dist-dev non-minified cs & jss in pages so they can be debugged. added "clean" task to beginning of grunt to wipe dist & dist-dev directories. configured socket.io to use minified & compressed version of js.