A Tooling Explainer
Task Runners
Transpilers
Module Bundlers
All I wanted to do was build a web page... :(
These tools give you superpowers
Package Managers
Recipes
Turn one thing into another thing
that the browser can understand
Manage your dependencies: no more endless <script> tags
Include other filetypes locally
babel src/index.js --out-file dist/compiled.js
node-sass --output-style compressed -o dist/css src/scss
postcss --use autoprefixer *.css -d build/
grunt dev:watch
npm start
But wait... there's more!
By Oliver Turner
A lightning talk on tooling for beginners given at Twitter