Your build process needs you

Introduction to one of the panels at Edge 2014 in London, all about the importance of the build process. Mainly focused on an audience of frontend or Javascript developers, but relevant to pretty much any environment.

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1. Your Build Process needs you Edge Conference, London, 2014
2. A build process is a way of sharing common actions Gareth Rushgrove
3. Because people suck at repetitive tasks Gareth Rushgrove
4. And words can mean different things to different people (or different teams) Gareth Rushgrove
5. Your build process is software Gareth Rushgrove
6. Which makes you a software developer Gareth Rushgrove
7. What are we building?
8. CSS preprocessing, templating, bundling, minification, linting, testing, optimisation, transpiling Gareth Rushgrove
9. Gareth Rushgrove
10. Gareth Rushgrove 30,428 installs of grunt today
11. Gareth Rushgrove 2500+ grunt plugins
12. Gareth Rushgrove 450+ gulp plugins
13. Gareth Rushgrove contrib-jshint vs gulp-jshint
14. Gareth Rushgrove grunt-coffee vs gulp-coffee
15. Compilation, dependency management, packaging Gareth Rushgrove
16. Make, NMake, Maven, Ant, Nant, Gradle, Rake, Phing, Leiningen, sbt, rebar, MSBuild Gareth Rushgrove 2 points for each tool used. -5 if you liked using Maven.
17. Gareth Rushgrove django-static-compiler vs django-compressor vs sprockets vs assetic 1 or more for every language imaginable
18. Everything old is new again
19. Building software is not new Gareth Rushgrove
20. Make is older than you (probably) Make was released in 1977 fact fans Gareth Rushgrove
21. all: hello hello: echo "hello Edgeconf" Makefile Gareth Rushgrove
22. As a community we spend a lot of effort reinventing the wheel Gareth Rushgrove
23. Gareth Rushgrove Invariable in our language of choice
24. Invariable in our language and tool of choice Gareth Rushgrove
25. Gareth Rushgrove Invariable in our language and tool of choice at the moment
26. Let’s make things better
27. Can we share entire pipelines as well as tools to build them? Gareth Rushgrove
28. What is the most valuable unit of sharing? Gareth Rushgrove
29. How do we break down artificial programming language silos? Gareth Rushgrove