Ag (aka "the silver searcher") is a very fast replacement for grep.

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It will parse your .gitignore for additional speedup. To ignore even more files (node_modules, *.min.js etc), add an .ignore with syntax identical to .gitignore.

See Faster Grepping in Vim Show archive.org snapshot for hints about vim integration.