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Frontend Tooling 101

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The Shell

your foundation

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The Dotfiles

Track your shell preferences on git

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The Z

Traverse seamlessly through your projects

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Scaffolding

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Scaffolding :: Yeoman

The Web's scaffolding tool for modern webapps

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Scaffolding :: Yeoman

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  • It's a CLI tool
  • Very cool interface
  • 1200+ Generators
  • You can create your own

 

  • Guide for Best Practises

Your Editor

The app you spend most of your time with

 

 

by far

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Your Editor

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  • Doesn't matter which one you use
  • Know it really really well
    • All ​Keyboard shortcuts
    • Packages / Plugins
    • Snippets
    • A soothing theme

Your Editor

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BUT WHATEVER YOU DO...

INSTALL

Development Workflow

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Your super best friends

Development Workflow

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Makefile
Rakefile

Development Workflow

Your super best friends

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JUST PICK ONE!

Watch tasks

Development Workflow

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  • Watch multiple folders
  • Perform multiple tasks
  • Trigger with just a save
  • Trigger Live Reload

Testing Automation

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Tools of the trade

Testing Automation

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Dependency Management

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Dependency Management

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CommonJS

Asynchronous Model Definition

Browserify

RequireJS

RequireJS

Dependency Management

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  • Load modules asynchronously (XHR)
  • Does not require build step (F5 works)
  • Has a runtime
  • Has a build tool
  • Was all the rage couple years ago
  • Testing issues
  • Edgy, requires too much attention

Browserify

Dependency Management

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  • [CJS] Node.js Style
  • Reduces context switching (when on node)
  • Allows usage of the 100k npm modules
  • Ok not all of them...
  • Requires a build step (no F5)
  • Transpiles ES5 to ES3
  • Perfect for testing
  • Setup and forget

Build Flows

remember our friends?

Makefile
Rakefile

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Build Flows

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Thank you

(here is where you applaud)

Thanasis Polychronakis

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Questions?

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Get the slides

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Frontend Tooling 101

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Frontend Tooling 101

From shell to browser

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