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Matt Bailey
October 17, 2015
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Front End Workflow
A look at current front end workflow - tools, techniques, methodologies.
Matt Bailey
October 17, 2015
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Transcript
Front End Workflow
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My Journey Where I’ve Come From Where I Am Now
What’s Next
Matt Bailey @_mattbailey mattbailey.io
Creative Director gpmd.co.uk
Design Front End Development
My Journey
Where I’ve Come From
The Transition From Analogue To Digital
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Where I Am Now
It’s still very much a journey Learning new things on
a daily basis
Responsive Web Design
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Responsive Web Design Has Created Significant Challenges A Need For
A More ‘Agile’ Approach In Our Design Process
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Design & Development Tools Have Changed Dramatically
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Countless Frameworks, Platforms, Content Management Systems, Site Generators etc.
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Source code and version control management
Consistent Development Environments
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Multi-device testing
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Dependency And Package Managers, Preprocessors, Build Tools, And Methodologies
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Coding Languages, Coding Style And Methodologies
CSS Preprocessors Less Sass (SCSS) Stylus
Huge Increase In Efficiency More Like A ‘Proper’ Programming Language
Variables Mixins Functions Extends And so on…
BEM Block Element Modifier
.block {} .block__element {} .block__element--modifier {}
BEM helps us write CSS that… Easy to scale Is
clear and obvious in its purpose Is self-documenting http://www.gpmd.co.uk/blog/our-approach-to-bem/
ITCSS Inverted Triangle CSS Harry Roberts (CSS Wizardry)
Settings Tools Generic Base Objects Vendor Components Trumps
A Highly Modular Way Of Structuring CSS Starts With Low
Specificity (HTML tags) Rules Ends With High Specificity/Complexity Rules http://www.gpmd.co.uk/blog/scalable-css/
my-project/ `- src/ `- styles/ |- settings/ # Variables |-
tools/ # Functions, mixins etc. |- generic/ # Low-specificity (normalize) |- base/ # Unclassed HTML elements |- objects/ # Design-free objects & patterns |- vendor/ # Third party components |- components/ # Modules, widgets etc. (theme) `- trumps/ # Helper classes and overrides
Sassbase https://github.com/gpmd/sassbase
Performance & Optimisation
Image Optimisation & Delivery
‘picture’ element, & ’srcset’ and ‘sizes’ Content Delivery Networks Image
Management Pipeline - Dynamically deliver different image sizes and file formats (WebP, JPEGXR etc.) to end users
Critical Rendering Path
Methods And Best Practices For Improving The Render Time Of
Our Pages Minify/uglifying Remove render blocking CSS/JavaScript Load JavaScript asynchronously Inline critical CSS in the head etc…
A Hugely Diverse Role
Coding Standards & Conventions Style Guides and Pattern Libraries Dependency
Management & Package Managers Build Systems Regression Testing Performance Optimisation Continuous Integration Documentation
Designer & Front End Architect
–Elyse Holladay “I want to build systems, architectures. I want
my users to be my fellow developer and designers as much as the end user. I want to make a site where the code on the inside looks as great as the outside, and make it easy to do things like theme, A/B test, and build new modules.”
Let’s Do This
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Project Structure
my-project/ # Project (Git) root | |- public_html/ # Web
root | `- themes/ | `- my-theme/ # (dist) Build destination | |- src/ # Source files | |- bower_components/ # Front end components |- bower.json | |- node_modules/ # Build dependencies |- package.json | `- Gruntfile.js # Build config
Dependency Management
Build System Dependencies
grunt grunt-autoprefixer grunt-concurrent grunt-contrib-clean grunt-contrib-concat grunt-contrib-copy grunt-contrib-cssmin grunt-contrib-imagemin grunt-contrib-jshint grunt-contrib-uglify
grunt-contrib-watch grunt-csscss grunt-modernizr grunt-sass grunt-scss-lint grunt-spritesmith grunt-stylestats load-grunt-config jshint-stylish time-grunt
Front End Components
picturefill modernizr normalize.css normalize-opentype.css jquery respond jquery-hoverIntent smooth-scroll owl-carousel2 background-size-polyfill
jquery-replacetext CSS3MultiColumn isotope imagesloaded tablesaw
Build System
Task Manager
Gruntfile.js load-grunt-config - separate out task configs build environments -
‘prod’ and ‘dev’
module.exports = function(grunt) { # Use load-grunt-config require('load-grunt-config')(grunt, { jitGrunt:
true, # Use fast plugin loader init: true, data: { # $ grunt --env=prod (or) --env=dev env: grunt.option('env') || 'prod', # src and dynamic dist locations project: { src: 'src', dist: '<% if (env === "prod") { %>tmp<% } else { %>dist<% } %>' } } }); };
Grunt Task Configs In Separate Files
my-project/ | |- grunt/ | |- sass.js | |- uglify.js
| |- watch.js | `- # etc. | `- Gruntfile.js
aliases.js
module.exports = function(grunt, data) { var env = data.env ||
'prod'; return { default: { # Default build tasks: [env] }, dev: { # Dev build tasks tasks: [ ‘concurrent:devFirst', 'concurrent:devSecond' ] }, prod: { # Production build tasks tasks: [ 'concurrent:prodFirst', 'concurrent:prodSecond' ] } }; };
concurrent.js
module.exports = { options: { limit: 3 }, devFirst: [
# 1st dev target 'clean:dev' ], devSecond: [ # 2nd dev target 'sass:dev', 'uglify:dev' ], prodFirst: [ # 1st production target 'clean:prod' ], prodSecond: [ # 2nd production target 'sass:prod', 'uglify:prod' ] };
Sass Tasks grunt-sass - Uses fast libsass compiler grunt-scss-lint -
Lint your SCSS files css-min - Efficient CSS minifier
CSS Reporting Tasks grunt-csscss - Find duplicated declarations grunt-stylestats -
Evaluate & report CSS stats
And the rest… grunt-autoprefixer grunt-modernizr grunt-contrib-concat grunt-contrib-imagemin grunt-spritesmith grunt-contrib-jshint grunt-contrib-uglify
grunt-contrib-watch etc…
Gruntbase https://github.com/gpmd/gruntbase
Git Hooks
post-merge Runs after a `git merge` or `git pull`
1. Checks for changed files 2. Runs npm install &&
npm prune 3. Runs bower install && bower prune 4. Runs grunt
pre-commit Runs before a `git commit`
1. Runs grunt 2. Won’t commit if build fails git
commit -m “My Message” -n
my-project/ | |- .git | `- hooks | |- post-merge
-> ../../githooks/post-merge | `- pre-commit -> ../../githooks/pre-commit | `- githooks |- post-merge `- pre-commit
Initial Setup
setup.sh > 1. githooks.sh # Creates Git hook symlinks 2.
build.sh # Installs dependencies and runs build
What’s Next?
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CSS Namespacing
More transparent code http://csswizardry.com/2015/03/more- transparent-ui-code-with-namespaces/
o- # object c- # Component u- # utility t-
# theme s- # Scope is-, has- # State _ # Hack js- # Javascript qa- # QA
‘Living’ Style Guides
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SC5 Styleguide Generator Hologram Pattern Lab Fabricator SourceJS http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/04/an-in- depth-overview-of-living-style-guide-tools/
Visual Regression Testing
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BackstopJS Resemble.js PhantomCSS
Deployment Server Continuous Integration (Lite)
One server for all builds All the build tools and
dependencies in one place Push only built code to production server
That’s All Folks
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Thank You speakerdeck.com/mattbailey/front-end-workflow @_mattbailey mattbailey.io