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Intro To Frontend Tooling - Codemash '14
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Adam Simpson
January 10, 2014
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Intro To Frontend Tooling - Codemash '14
An introduction to the modern front-end developer's toolbox.
Adam Simpson
January 10, 2014
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Transcript
Adam Simpson INTRO TO FRONTEND TOOLING
Who Am I?
twitter.com/a_simpson ! alpha.app.net/a_simpson ! github.com/asimpson
Where are we going?
GET FOAMY http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-foamy-rules-for-rabid-tools/
Tooling at Sparkbox
Don’t be Overwhelmed
The web is software.
Software is hard.
STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANT…ROBOTS
As Isaac Newton once said, “we stand on the shoulders
of giants” (source control, homebrew, cli, js, coffeescript, bower, yeoman)
INTRO TO FRONTEND TOOLING GET FOAMY
“the correct tool is going to make you exponentially more
productive”
“My tools are my tools. Choosing a thing makes it
yours. The choice is the result of that unique mix of logic, superstition, stubbornness, and experience that fits you.”
“And you never stop looking — this is why the
last foamy rule is the most important: my tools are always fighting for their life.”
Anything is up for replacement
INTRO TO FRONTEND TOOLING TOOLING HAS EXPLODED
Boilerplate Abstractions Frameworks Testing Docs Workflow Dependency management Performance optimization
Build Continuous Integration Deployment Version control http://bit.ly/1cJ3hX8
Get a mental model
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Git ‣ Makes collaboration effortless ‣ Github/Bitbucket makes bug tracking
easy ‣ Removes any fear of losing code ‣ Stash FTW
http://wheningit.tumblr.com
Git ‣ https://medium.com/design-ux/ 92f2350fd047 ‣ http://steelcityruby.confbots.com/ video/72762735 ‣ http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/ github-fundamentals/
‣ http://tom.preston-werner.com/ 2009/05/19/the-git-parable.html
Remember, use the tool that makes your team and your
work better
Frontend dev is part art, part science.
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$base-font-multiplier: 1;! $breakpoint-no-queries: false;! $breakpoint-no-query-wrappers: true;! $nomq: ".lt-ie9 &, .no-mq";
@mixin rem( $property, $a:0, $b:$a, $c:$a, $d:$b ) {! @if
( $property == "font-size" ) {! // $a is the font size! // %b is the keyword! @if ( $a != $b ) {! font-size: $b;! }! @else {! font-size: $a * $base-font-multiplier * 16px;! }! font-size: $a * 1rem;! } @else {! $apx: $a * $base-font-multiplier * 16px;! $bpx: $b * $base-font-multiplier * 16px;! $cpx: $c * $base-font-multiplier * 16px;! $dpx: $d * $base-font-multiplier * 16px;! $arem: $a * 1rem;! $brem: $b * 1rem;! $crem: $c * 1rem;! $drem: $d * 1rem;! ! @if ( $property == "padding" or $property == "margin" ){! #{$property}: $apx $bpx $cpx $dpx;! #{$property}: $arem $brem $crem $drem;! } @else {! #{$property}: $apx;! #{$property}: $arem;! }! }! }
@mixin sb-media($query) {! @if $no-mq-support{! @if $query < $serve-to-nomq-max-width{! @content;!
}! } @else {! @media ( 'min-width:' + $query ) {! @content;! }! }! }
gem install sass ! http://sass-lang.com
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number = 3+2! ! summaryMarkup = """! <div class="content">! <p>!
Foo: #{number}! </p>! </div>! """
var number, summaryMarkup;! ! number = 3 + 2;! !
summaryMarkup = "<div class=\"content\">\n <p>\n Foo: " + number + "\n </p>\n</div>";
mood = greatlyImproved if singing
if (singing) {! mood = greatlyImproved;! }!
sudo npm install -g coffee-script ! http://coffeescript.org
Jade http://jade-lang.com http://haml.info
Emmet + VIM
INTRO TO FRONTEND TOOLING SIDENOTE #1 HOLY FILES
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PROS ‣ Made CSS more programmy ‣ Enforcement of good
JS habits via CoffeeScript ‣ Rapid HTML authoring
CONS ‣ Added complexity ‣ Added more files ‣ Added
dependencies
HOW WE HANDLE THE CHAOS ‣ We DON’T check in
generated files ‣ SASS/LESS/CoffeeScript files are the source of truth
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INTRO TO FRONTEND TOOLING SIDENOTE #2 TEXT EDITORS
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PICK ONE
INTRO TO FRONTEND TOOLING SIDENOTE #3 CLI
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http://cli.learncodethehardway.org
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https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh
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ZSH FAVs ‣ Auto-Complete all the things ‣ Prompt customization
‣ Git integration
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Handlebars ‣ Allows us to model basic CMS templating w/out
getting into specific CMS quirks. ‣ Separates content from markup ‣ Allows us to quickly test various kinds of content. ‣ Puts our markup in “chunks”
Handlebars + Grunt ‣ http://handlebarsjs.com ‣ https://github.com/assemble/ assemble/ ‣ http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/
spec.html
assemble:! options:! partials: "partials/*"! data: "data/*.yml"! home_page:! src: “partials/home-page.hbs"! dest:
"dist/index.html" Gruntfile.coffee
title: YAML Resources! ! resources:! - http://yamllint.com/! - http://nodeca.github.io/js-yaml/ home-page.yml
<h1>{{title}}</h1>! <ul class=“content-listing“>! {{#each resources}}! <li><a href="{{this}}">{{this}}</a></li>! {{/each}}! </ul>! home-page.hbs
.content-listing {! @include rem(font-size, .7);! padding: 1em 5%;! list-style: none;!
} home-page.scss
Now that we've covered all the dependencies and moving parts,
it's time to look at a solution that aims to harness all these pieces.
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Grunt - a taskrunner
Grunt provides the muscle
npm install -g grunt-cli
Grunt ‣ Preprocessing our CSS ‣ Running CoffeeScript ‣ Converting
HAML to HTML ‣ Making those Handlebars modules actual HTML pages ‣ Concat, minify, test our JS
Grunt has a wonderful plugin ecosystem.
Make or Modify your tools!
it's just JS (actually Node).
Bower - a package manager
npm install -g bower
“Bower runs over Git, and is package-agnostic.” - http://bower.io
Bower ‣ Allows you to pull down just about any
JS library via the command line ‣ Scriptable ‣ Auto-completes on ZSH ‣ Use Grunt to move the libraries once Bower pulls them down.
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...an opinionated collection of Grunt tasks, with scaffolding.
npm install -g yo
https://github.com/yeoman/ yeoman/wiki/The-Road-to-1.0
If none of the existing generators fit your workflow, write
your own!
http://bit.ly/JGemll
npm install -g generator-mg
yo mg
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MgGenerator.prototype.runtime = function runtime() {! this.copy('gitignore', '.gitignore');! this.copy('Gemfile', 'Gemfile');! this.copy('Gemfile.lock',
'Gemfile.lock');! this.copy('config.rb', 'config.rb');! this.directory('public', 'public');! this.directory('scss', 'scss');! this.directory('coffee', 'coffee');! this.directory('data', 'data');! this.directory('partials', 'partials');! this.directory('opt-imgs', 'opt-imgs');! };
THANKS! Adam Simpson
[email protected]