Purpose of dist and build folders?

Question

IT terminology

Good day.
Why do I use these folders in project builders and so on?
As I understand it, for example: let's take the Grunt builder, build the project, in the build folder there are not minified files, but minified files in the dist folder?

Answer 1

In fact, these folders do not have any special meaning, for example, you can do without them at all or name them something else.
For example, I am writing a browser extension on coffescript - js from coffee is compiled into the dist folder and I load it in development mode. And a ready-made update archive for the extension store is collected in the build folder .