Intro to Frontend Tooling - Gem City JS

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1. Adam Simpson INTRO TO FRONTEND TOOLING

2. Who Am I?

3. twitter.com/a_simpson ! alpha.app.net/a_simpson ! github.com/asimpson

4. Where are we going?

5. GET FOAMY http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-foamy-rules-for-rabid-tools/

6. Tooling at Sparkbox

7. Don’t be Overwhelmed

8. The web is software.

9. Software is hard.

10. STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANT…ROBOTS

11. As Isaac Newton once said, “we stand on the shoulders

    of giants” (source control, homebrew, cli, js, coffeescript, bower, yeoman)

12. INTRO TO FRONTEND TOOLING GET FOAMY

13. “the correct tool is going to make you exponentially more

    productive”

14. “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.”

15. “And you never stop looking — this is why the

    last foamy rule is the most important: my tools are always fighting for their life.”

16. Anything is up for replacement

17. INTRO TO FRONTEND TOOLING TOOLING HAS EXPLODED

18. Boilerplate Abstractions Frameworks Testing Docs Workflow Dependency management Performance optimization

    Build Continuous Integration Deployment Version control http://bit.ly/1cJ3hX8

19. Get a mental model

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21. Git ‣ Makes collaboration effortless ‣ Github/Bitbucket makes bug tracking

    easy ‣ Removes any fear of losing code ‣ Stash FTW

22. http://wheningit.tumblr.com

23. 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

24. Remember, use the tool that makes your team and your

    work better

25. Frontend dev is part art, part science.

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28. $base-font-multiplier: 1;! $breakpoint-no-queries: false;! $breakpoint-no-query-wrappers: true;! $nomq: ".lt-ie9 &, .no-mq";

29. @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;! }! }! }

30. @mixin sb-media($query) {! @if $no-mq-support{! @if $query < $serve-to-nomq-max-width{! @content;!

    }! } @else {! @media ( 'min-width:' + $query ) {! @content;! }! }! }

31. gem install sass ! http://sass-lang.com

32. gem install compass ! http://compass-style.org

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34. number = 3+2! ! summaryMarkup = """! <div class="content">! <p>!

    Foo: #{number}! </p>! </div>! """

35. var number, summaryMarkup;! ! number = 3 + 2;! !

    summaryMarkup = "<div class=\"content\">\n <p>\n Foo: " + number + "\n </p>\n</div>";

36. mood = greatlyImproved if singing

37. if (singing) {! mood = greatlyImproved;! }!

38. sudo npm install -g coffee-script ! http://coffeescript.org

39. Jade http://jade-lang.com http://haml.info

40. Emmet + VIM

41. INTRO TO FRONTEND TOOLING SIDENOTE #1 HOLY FILES

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43. PROS ‣ Made CSS more programmy ‣ Enforcement of good

    JS habits via CoffeeScript ‣ Rapid HTML authoring

44. CONS ‣ Added complexity ‣ Added more files ‣ Added

    dependencies

45. 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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48. INTRO TO FRONTEND TOOLING SIDENOTE #2
 TEXT EDITORS

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50. PICK ONE

51. INTRO TO FRONTEND TOOLING SIDENOTE #3 CLI

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53. http://cli.learncodethehardway.org

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55. https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh

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57. ZSH FAVs ‣ Auto-Complete all the things ‣ Prompt customization

    ‣ Git integration
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59. 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”

60. Handlebars + Grunt ‣ http://handlebarsjs.com ‣ https://github.com/assemble/ assemble/ ‣ http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/

    spec.html

61. assemble:! options:! partials: "partials/*"! data: "data/*.yml"! home_page:! src: “partials/home-page.hbs"! dest:

    "dist/index.html" Gruntfile.coffee

62. title: YAML Resources! ! resources:! - http://yamllint.com/! - http://nodeca.github.io/js-yaml/ home-page.yml

63. <h1>{{title}}</h1>! <ul class=“content-listing“>! {{#each resources}}! <li><a href="{{this}}">{{this}}</a></li>! {{/each}}! </ul>! home-page.hbs

64. .content-listing {! @include rem(font-size, .7);! padding: 1em 5%;! list-style: none;!

    } home-page.scss

65. 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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67. Grunt - a taskrunner

68. Grunt provides the muscle

69. npm install -g grunt-cli

70. Grunt ‣ Preprocessing our CSS ‣ Running CoffeeScript ‣ Converting

    HAML to HTML ‣ Making those Handlebars modules actual HTML pages ‣ Concat, minify, test our JS

71. Grunt has a wonderful plugin ecosystem.

72. Make or Modify your tools!

73. it's just JS (actually Node).

74. Bower - a package manager

75. npm install -g bower

76. “Bower runs over Git, and is package-agnostic.” - http://bower.io

77. 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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79. ...an opinionated collection of Grunt tasks, with scaffolding.

80. npm install -g yo

81. https://github.com/yeoman/ yeoman/wiki/The-Road-to-1.0

82. If none of the existing generators fit your workflow, write

    your own!

83. http://bit.ly/JGemll

84. npm install -g generator-mg

85. yo mg

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88. 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');! };

89. THANKS! Adam Simpson adam@heysparkbox.com