Build Right: Frontend Tooling @ Front-End Conf

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@robtarr @neilrenicker

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Who we are

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Who are you?

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bit.ly/frontend-conf- workshop-notes

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BUILD RIGHT: FRONTEND TOOLING PATH OF PAIN

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BUILD RIGHT: FRONTEND TOOLING TRADITIONAL PAIN

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PATH OF PAIN Traditional Painful Flow DESIGNER FRONTEND BUILDING LAUNCH! DEV A DEV C “DONE!” THIS PART SUCKS LAST SEC CHANGES

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PAIN POINTS

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ENLIGHTENMENT

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PAIN POINTS

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ENLIGHTENMENT

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The traditional web development workﬂow is fraught with variance, isolation, and errors. Modern frontend tooling provides solutions for most of these issues.

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COMPUTERS SOFTWARE DEV FRONT END DEV

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CS FRONT END DEV SOURCE CONTROL DRY PRINCIPLES JAVASCRIPT

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“There’s a new set of baseline skills required in order to be successful as a front-end developer, and developers who don’t meet this baseline are going to start feeling more and more left behind…” ! —rmurphey.com/blog/2012/04/12/a-baseline- for-front-end-developers/

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BUILD RIGHT: FRONTEND TOOLING WHERE ARE WE HEADED?

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Source Control

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Static Design Tools

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Local Servers

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Deployment

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Preprocessing

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Editors

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Development Tools

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Device Testing

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Productivity

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github.com/sparkbox/ br-frontend-demo

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PRODUCTIVITY BUILD RIGHT: FRONTEND TOOLING

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LAYING THE GROUNDWORK A Case For Laziness

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Laziness: the programmer’s mantra

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DRY Don’t Repeat Yourself

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Productivity is about net gain.

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LAYING THE GROUNDWORK Getting Into The Command Line

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Should a frontend dev learn to use the CLI?

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Image: nasa.gov Launch a rocket without a control center?

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Image: ﬂickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ Fight a ﬁre without an oxygen tank?

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Do it. It’s the “way in” to your computer

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If you're only comfortable with GUI interfaces, you're always going to be stuck relying on a translator.

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bit.ly/br-tooling-links

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You'll take a few steps backward in productivity when you begin. There's a net gain here, though.

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PRODUCTIVITY PAIN POINTS And Their Solutions

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MOUSE CLICKS Using the pointer is usually cumbersome.

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alfredapp.com Type everything.

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Alfred Workﬂows

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kapeli.com/dash Quick access to docs.

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vimium.github.io Internet with your keyboard.

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Touch typing. Practice typing without looking. Looking at your keyboard is a crutch. bullettrain.com

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DOCUMENT SAVING, RETRIEVING & ORGANIZING

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daringﬁreball.net/projects/markdown/ Markdown and the plain text workﬂow

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Markdown

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Markdown

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Github ♥’s Markdown!

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Github ♥’s Markdown!

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brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt nvAlt: Quick access to text entry

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metaclassy.com Byword: Beautiful Markdown

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EXCESSIVE TYPING

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smilesoftware.com/ TextExpander TextExpander: speedy text snippets

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Shortcuts within the terminal: aliases and bash scripts

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alias c="clear" ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc

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alias go="cd ~/Documents/Projects ; ls" ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc

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Your /dotﬁles repo

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Other People's Dotfiles (OPD) dotfiles.github.io github.com/asimpson/dotfiles

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DISTRACTION

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Syntax highlighting

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Achieving focus: Obsessive singularity

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manytricks.com/moom Moom: quick screen resizing

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Achieving focus: The desktop of evil

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Achieving focus: Hide your dock

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Achieving focus: Do not disturb

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theletterapp.com Let.ter: send-only email

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THE INTERNET IS A DEEP BLACK HOLE  The thing we build can also keep us from doing notable work

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THE PRODUCTIVITY MINDSET

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Drip, drip, drip ‣ Productivity boosts happen in tiny increments ‣ Could I automate this?

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Productivity Strain: ! Embrace small strains for huge productivity gains over time

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Productivity Strain COMFY OUCH! RADICAL IMPROVEMENT

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Productivity Strain ‣ The best time to create a shortcut for an obtuse task is the moment you imagine that it could be faster. ‣ It’s probably billable time.

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Simple example: ! TYPE ALL OF YOUR CODE

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Your productivity hacks?

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DEMO

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TEXT EDITORS BUILD RIGHT: FRONTEND TOOLING

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Which editor do you use?

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WHY CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?

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Do Editors Matter? ‣ 90% of editor arguments are lighthearted ‣ Your editor preference barely effects the rest of your team ‣ Fighting over editors is almost useless. There are better battles to fight.

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HOWEVER

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You spend almost all of your time in your editor.

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Your editor preference changes the way you think.

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THE PATH OF PAIN

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TEXT EDITORS A few signs you need a better editor: 1. Your editor is writing code for you

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TEXT EDITORS A few signs you need a better editor: 2. You’re doing lots of clicking

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TEXT EDITORS A few signs you need a better editor: 3. You’re repeating yourself—a lot!

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TEXT EDITORS A few signs you need a better editor: 4. You’ve hit a ceiling, and you can’t go higher.

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THE CASE FOR THE PLAIN TEXT EDITOR

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Technically, all you need to code is an app that will accept text:

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Writing all your code in TextEdit.app would be pretty painful, though! ‣ Lots of typing! ‣ No project tree ‣ No syntax highlighting ‣ Sad and depressed

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IDE? Integrated Development Environment

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This is the part you actually need

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Choosing a great text editor removes abstraction between your brain and your code.

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IDE’s ‣Slow development time ‣Messy code ‣Unskillful developers

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“Dreamweaver was attempting to be helpful, but the moment it reformatted my code, I threw a ﬁt. YOU TOUCHED MY CODE. Dreamweaver never recovered from that horrendous ﬁrst impression.” http://randsinrepose.com/

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Enter the simple, powerful text editor

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Here’s what to look for: ‣ are you comfortable in it? ‣ can it do what you need? ‣ is it writing code for you?

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THE CURRENT STATE OF EDITORS

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Editors on the market: ‣ Sublime Text ‣ Vim ‣ Atom ‣ TextMate ‣ BBedit ‣ Coda ‣ Emacs ‣ Espresso

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Editors you should actually consider: ‣ Sublime Text ‣ Vim

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Seriously, you guys. Vim Sublime Text sublimetext.com vim.org

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“I don’t think of BBedit as a commitment. It simply continues to be the best choice.” —bit.ly/editor-rage

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bit.ly/br-tooling-links

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Why Sublime? ‣low barrier of entry sublimetext.com/

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Why Sublime? ‣highly extensible

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Why Sublime? ‣highly extensible sublime.wbond.net/installation

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A few essential Sublime packages: Many more: sublime.wbond.net/ ‣ SideBarEnhancements ‣ AdvancedNewFile ‣ Emmet

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Why Sublime? ‣killer features Go to Anything: ⌘+P

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Why Sublime? ‣killer features Command Palette: ⌘+Shift+P

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Why Sublime? ‣ recent rise in popularity ‣ compared to Coda or Espresso, it’s fast & close to the code ‣ Vintage mode for Vim key bindings ‣ hint: you should use Sublime

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Why Vim?

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Why Vim? ‣ fast ‣ mouseless! ‣ dot command, macros, commands by line ‣ configurable (vimrc, vundle) ‣ super old

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…the fact that, yes, people still use an editor that is over 20 years old […], and those people number in the hundreds of thousands, perhaps they might be  onto something. csswizardry.com/2014/06/vim-for-people-who-think- things-like-vim-are-weird-and-hard/

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Why Vim? ‣ high skill ceiling ‣ popular (vimbits.com) ‣ Runs in a terminal ‣ everywhere (any platform, ssh, other people’s machines) ‣ fun, in a weird way

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Runners-up panic.com/coda/ macrabbit.com/espresso/

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THE RABID CASH MACHINE

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TEXT EDITORS MATTER. GET FOAMY.

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Editor Cults ‣ Get cultic about your editor ‣ As you're making your case, you'll have to nerd out on your editor. ‣ This is where real learning happens!

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Seething, rabid coding machine

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There’s only one thing more important than your editor. The code it helps you write.

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While you're nerding out on your editor, your coworkers are raking in cash for the boss.

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THE RABID CASH MACHINE He’s using Sublime

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BUILD RIGHT: FRONTEND TOOLING SOURCE CONTROL

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THE PATH OF PAIN Life without Source Control

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Let’s build something!

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Manually look for changes

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Collaboration + Data Integrity

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main.css neil.css rob.css old.css

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What about you?

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UH… WHAT’S SOURCE CONTROL?

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TERMS

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Push Server Computer

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Pull Server Computer

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Commit ⌘ S +

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Branch Master New Branch

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Master New Branch Merge

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Conﬂict !@#$

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Branching is a huge feature.

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Git supports rapid branching and merging [...] A core assumption in Git is that a change will be merged more often than it is written, as it is passed around various reviewers. Branches in git are very lightweight. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)

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Go Branch Crazy

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DEFINING SOURCE CONTROL Source Control gives you: ‣ The ability to collaborate with others on a single codebase ‣ Manage any conflicts that collaboration brings ‣ The ability to move code around in time.

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Version control is a system that records changes to a file or set of files over time so that you can recall specific versions later —http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting- Started-About-Version-Control

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Local v. Centralized

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Both of these solutions suffer from having the change data stored in a single place.

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Distributed: A third option arises!

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Git is a DVCS

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We use Git because it allows effortless branching, it's blazing fast, and it's extremely reliable

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“[In making Git] Take CVS as an example of what not to do; if in doubt, make the exact opposite decision." —Torvalds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)

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bit.ly/br-tooling-links

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thehubapp.com Hub: better Github notiﬁcations

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INTRO TO USING GIT

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Grab the GitHub App ! http://mac.github.com http://windows.github.com

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DEMO

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BUILD RIGHT: FRONTEND TOOLING DESIGN TOOLS

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VERSION CONTROL FOR DESIGNERS!

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‣ Keynote: apple.com/mac/keynote/ ‣ Moqups: moqups.com/ ‣ Foundation: foundation.zurb.com/ ‣ Bootstrap: getbootstrap.com/ Wireframing

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Static or Hybrid?

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THE STATIC  COMBATANTS

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PAIN POINTS

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POWER vs. COMPLEXITY

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SKETCH Just enough power. No needless complexity.

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It ain’t perfect.

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NO WINNERS

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Design should be happening in all phases of a project.

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Know your tools, use the right one for the task at hand.

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Thoughts? Your Experience?

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DEMO

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BROWSER DEVELOPER TOOLS BUILD RIGHT: FRONTEND TOOLING

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THE PATH OF PAIN Dev Tools Edition

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We don’t know how good we have it ‣ Alerts to debug JavaScript alert("JavaScript is loaded!");

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We don’t know how good we have it ‣ Blindly switching between editor and browser

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Humble beginnings ‣ 2006: Firebug ‣ 2007: IE Developer toolbar (IE6 and IE7) ‣ 2009: IE8 Developer tools

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Firebug: a tool is born

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“When you hit the ‘Inspect’ button, mousing around the page will reveal the source of the element under your cursor ‘in real time’. Having the source instantly expand to reveal what what you touch is quite fun - it gives one the sensation of panning for gold.” ! —Joe Hewitt, creator of Firebug http://joehewitt.com/2006/03/15/ﬁrebug-a-love-story

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Now, dev tools are a key part of our workﬂow, and more powerful than ever.

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YOUR BROWSER IS A DESIGN TOOL

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Our designs have started far away from code…

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…but we’re slowly moving closer to the code.

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styletil.es “Style Tiles are similar to the paint chips and fabric swatches an interior designer gets approval on before designing a room”

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…until we’re almost right on top of the code.

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sparkbox.github.io/style-prototype/ “…allow[s] a client to get a visual summary of a site’s design direction without creating multiple Photoshop comps or fully developing HTML pages.

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demo.pattern-lab.info/ Atoms can also include more abstract elements like color palettes, fonts and even more invisible aspects of an interface like animations.

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Our deliverable? Websites. The sooner we get to the code, the closer we are to shipping.

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Image: “You best solve problems using tools you are ﬂuent with.”   —@bencallahan ﬂuency

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Modern browser developer tools are incredibly sophisticated. ! Fluency is possible.

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We should shift the bulk of our time toward the environment where our ﬁnal deliverable will live.

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Is this… really less complex?

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A FRIENDLY BEGINNER’S GUIDE What can the dev tools do for me?

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⌘ + OPT + I! or right-click, “Inspect Element” How do I view source?

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The ideal inspector layout for RWD work

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The ideal inspector layout for RWD work

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The ideal inspector layout for RWD work

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Elements Tab

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Network Tab

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Sources Tab

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DEV TOOLS MASTERY It can do that?!

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Know this one thing!

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The Settings Pane

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Resources: loaded documents

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Resources: local storage

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Resources: cookies

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Audit panel

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Audit panel

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Dev tools plugins

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3rd Party Dev Tool Plugins ‣ Grunt devtools ‣ Ember Inspector ‣ RailsPanel ‣ You name it!

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bit.ly/br-tooling-links

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DEMO

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PREPROCESSING BUILD RIGHT: FRONTEND TOOLING

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“I’m doing just ﬁne, thank-you.”

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SEMANTIC SHIFT “the evolution of word usage — usually to the point that the modern meaning is radically different from the original usage” —http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change

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Usage of words, 1850 to 2014 —books.google.com/ngrams/

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AWFUL inspiring wonder or truly terrible?

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FANTASTIC existing only in the imagination or marvelous, wonderful?

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MOUSE small gray rodent with a long tail or a plastic device used to navigate on a computer screen

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Languages have always evolved.

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Why should we expect anything less from computer languages? ‣ Incredible complexity ‣ Rapid change in hardware ‣ Rapid change in software

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Embrace “semantic shift” in your workﬂow if it tends toward efﬁciency.

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THE PATH OF PAIN Our languages are ﬂawed ‣ HTML is redundant. ‣ CSS is “flat”. ‣ JavaScript is verbose.

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Preprocessors let us live in a fantasy world where we create the languages we want.

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What is a preprocessor, exactly?

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User friendly language PREPROCESSOR Compiled language

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Language optimized for humans PREPROCESSOR Language optimized for browsers

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What, exactly? ‣ Preprocessors are a way to write code in a friendly language. ‣ The code then gets processed into something that browsers can understand.

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CSS PREPROCESSORS

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Preprocessing: CSS ‣ Less: lesscss.org/ ‣ Stylus: learnboost.github.io/stylus/ ‣ Sass: sass-lang.com/

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Less CSS .unstyled-link {! text-decoration: none;! }! ! .toollist-item {! .border-radius(5px);! background-color: #7b81d1;! ! a {! &:extend(.unstyled-link);! color: #000;! }! }! .toollist-item {! -webkit-border-radius: 5px;! -moz-border-radius: 5px;! border-radius: 5px;! background-color: #7b81d1;! }! ! .toollist-item a {! text-decoration: none; ! color: #000;! }!

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.toollist-item {! -webkit-border-radius: 5px;! -moz-border-radius: 5px;! border-radius: 5px;! background-color: #7b81d1;! }! ! .toollist-item a {! text-decoration: none; ! color: #000;! }! Stylus CSS .unstyled-link! text-decoration none! ! .toollist-item! border-radius 5px! background-color #7b81d1! ! a! @extend .unstyled-link! color #000!

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.unstyled-link {! text-decoration: none;! }! ! .toollist-item {! @include border-radius(5px);! background-color: #7b81d1;! ! a {! @extend %unstyled-link;! color: #000;! }! }! Sass CSS .toollist-item {! -webkit-border-radius: 5px;! -moz-border-radius: 5px;! border-radius: 5px;! background-color: #7b81d1;! }! ! .toollist-item a {! text-decoration: none; ! color: #000;! }!

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PREPROCESSING: CSS Which one? ‣ nesting ‣ variables ‣ mixins / functions ‣ extends ‣ math ‣ including

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PREPROCESSING: CSS We use Sass ‣ Widely used ‣ Personal preference ‣ Shipped with Rails ‣ Not much else

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Let’s take a look at some Sass.

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$primary-color: #cb592c;! $no-mq-support: false;!

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@mixin sb-media($query) {! @if $no-mq-support{! @if $query < $serve-to-nomq-max-width{! @content;! }! } @else {! @media ( 'min-width:' + $query ) {! @content;! }! }! }

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gem install sass! ! sass-lang.com

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PREPROCESSING: CSS Sass: The Ecosystem ‣ Compass ‣ Bourbon ‣ Scut

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gem install compass! ! compass-style.org

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DEMO

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JAVASCRIPT PREPROCESSORS

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Preprocessing: JavaScript

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var number, summaryMarkup;! ! number = 3 + 2;! ! summaryMarkup = "

\n Foo: " + number + "\n

";! JS

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number = 3+2! ! summaryMarkup = """!

! Foo: #{number}!

! """! Coffee

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Preprocessors let us live in a fantasy world where we create the languages we want.

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sudo npm install -g coffee-script! ! coffeescript.org

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HTML PREPROCESSORS

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jade-lang.com

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haml.info

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We don’t use HTML preprocessing at Sparkbox

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Emmet emmet.io/

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LET’S PULL IT ALL TOGETHER

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How do we compile preprocessed code?

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bit.ly/br-tooling-links

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incident57.com/codekit/

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http://alphapixels.com/prepros/

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Honorable mentions: ‣ Less.app ‣ Scout app ‣ Compass.app

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Is there a better way?

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Ruby Node SASS, Compass Grunt packages Bundler NPM Grunt

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Grunt: a taskrunner gruntjs.com/

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npm install -g grunt-cli

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Grunt does all the things! ‣ Process CSS ‣ Process CoffeeScript ‣ Process HTML ‣ Reload a page when code changes ‣ Minify code ‣ So much more

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Grunt is a JavaScript task runner that can automate dozens of repetitive tasks.

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It's just JavaScript. (actually Node)

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Grunt: Open source. Just ﬁles.

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module.exports = function(grunt) {! ! // Project configuration.! grunt.initConfig({! pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),! uglify: {! options: {! banner: '/*! <%= pkg.name %> <%=grunt.template.today("yyyy- ! ! ! mm-dd") %> */\n'! },! build: {! src: 'src/<%= pkg.name %>.js',! dest: 'build/<%= pkg.name %>.min.js'! }! }! });! ! // Load the plugin that provides the "uglify" task.! grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-uglify');! ! // Default task(s).! grunt.registerTask('default', ['uglify']);! }; Everything lives in Gruntﬁle.js

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Other Task Runners: gulpjs.com

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Other Task Runners: brunch.io

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Other Task Runners: github.com/broccolijs/broccoli

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Bower: a frontend package manager bower.io/

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npm install -g bower

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What is Bower? ‣ Pull down almost any JS library via the command line ‣ Not checking dependancies into the repo ‣ Use Grunt to manipulate the libraries once Bower pulls them down

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bower install jquery

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

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bower install [email protected]:sparkbox/Custom-Selectbox.git

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{! "name": "br-demo",! "version": "0.1.0",! "dependencies": {! "jquery": "1.9.1",! "js-md5": "~1.1.0",! "d3": "3.4.2",! "bootstrap": "2.3.2"! }! } Everything lives in bower.json

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The holy grail: modular markup

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This is a simple page, right?

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Many repeating elements

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This is our ﬁnal preprocessor pain point

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Handlebars + Assemble: powerful, modular markup

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Handlebars ‣ Basic templating without a CMS ‣ Brings automation power to markup (100’s of helpers) ‣ Reduce repetition

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Assemble ‣ Light static site generator ‣ Organize your layouts into manageable chunks ‣ Separate data from markup

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Notice the repetition?

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_tool-list-item.hbs

! {{#if notes}}!

! ! Read more! !

! {{/if}}!

! ! {{#if notes}}!

! {{#markdown}}{{notes}}{{/markdown}}!

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! Let’s write that once.

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_tool-list.hbs {{#each tool-list }}! {{> _tool-list-item }}! {{/each}}! Then use handlebars to automate it

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_tool-list-item.scss .tool-list-item {! @extend %clearfix;! overflow: hidden;! padding: 3em 1em;! position: relative;! }! Now our Sass can mirror this partial

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DEMO

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Questions?

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BUILD RIGHT: FRONTEND TOOLING LOCAL SERVERS

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[…] what matters is if you can test any changes to your code fast enough. —http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ questions/139187/web-development-no-local- server-workﬂow

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Working via Remote Server ‣ Slows development time ‣ Opens up production vulnerabilities ‣ Increases downtime

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Working Locally ‣ Websites/apps load instantly ‣ Work offline* ‣ Allows existing live sites to be up and functioning normally. ‣ Catch errors before they get to staging or production.

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Remember DVCS?

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OPTIONS

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bit.ly/br-tooling-links

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Packages

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Roll Your Own

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Vagrant ‣ Creates a VM to exactly replicate a production environment. ‣ Vagrant’s conﬁg can be checked into source control to replicate the environment across a team. http://vagrantup.com

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Docker ‣ The Docker Engine container comprises just the application and its dependencies. ‣ …it enjoys the resource isolation and allocation beneﬁts of VMs but is much more portable and efﬁcient. http://docker.com

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Try a number of solutions to find one that fits your project, your team, and your workflow

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Your Local server of choice? Questions?

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DEVICE TESTING BUILD RIGHT: FRONTEND TOOLING

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GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY

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Community Device Lab Start one?

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Company Device Lab Start one?

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Getting Started ‣ Android mobile device ‣ iOS mobile device (iPod Touch works great) ‣ A tablet: iPad Mini, Kindle Fire, or Google Nexus

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Poor man’s device lab! —Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21241102@N00/3908708670/

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VIRTUALIZATION

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Desktop OS virtualization allows developers to run alternate operating systems for testing purposes.

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parallels.com virtualbox.org

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bit.ly/br-tooling-links

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But what about licensing?

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LICENSING.

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modern.ie

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Every major IE and it’s needed OS

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One-command install: ! github.com/xdissent/ievms

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browserstack.com Simulated VMs in your browser

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VIRTUALIZATION Mobile Device Emulation ‣ iOS simulation with Xcode’s iOS Simulator ‣ Android simulation with Google’s Android Emulator

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We default to using physical devices if possible, VM’s for IE, and Browserstack for everything else.

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SYNCHRONIZED TESTING SOFTWARE

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3RD PARTY SOFTWARE 3rd party synchronized testing software ‣ Adobe Edge Inspect ‣ Ghostlab

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Adobe Edge Inspect iOS & Android app Chrome Browser Extension 3RD PARTY SOFTWARE

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Adobe Edge Inspect 3RD PARTY SOFTWARE

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Adobe Edge inspect works great, but limited in devices. Included in CC membership. 3RD PARTY SOFTWARE

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Ghostlab 3RD PARTY SOFTWARE

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Ghostlab Mac & Windows application 3RD PARTY SOFTWARE

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Ghostlab Hosts your site on a local server 3RD PARTY SOFTWARE

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Ghostlab Point any device on your network to that server 3RD PARTY SOFTWARE

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Ghostlab Inspector on host device 3RD PARTY SOFTWARE

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Ghostlab is fast, almost unlimited in devices. $49.99 for license. 3RD PARTY SOFTWARE

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ACCESSIBILITY TESTING

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Don’t overlook accessibility testing. Consider it a part of your job.

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VoiceOver on OS X System Preferences > Accessibility

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VoiceOver on iOS ! Preferences > General > Accessibility

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Sim Daltonism Mac App Store

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iconfactory.com/software/xscope XScope

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BUILD RIGHT: FRONTEND TOOLING AUTOMATED DEPLOYMENT

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A Major Point of Vulnerability

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STOP FTPing ALL THE FILES

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“Own your deployments from beginning to end.” !

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Services

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Roll Your Own

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Mina

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Features ‣ Fast! ‣ Uses Rake ‣ Boils down to a single Bash script

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Downsides ‣ A little harder to support more complex configurations

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require 'mina/bundler'! require 'mina/git'! ! set :domain, 'buildright.io'! set :deploy_to, '/var/www/buildright.io'! set :repository, 'git://...'! set :branch, 'master'! ! set :shared_paths, ['log']! ! task :setup => :environment do! queue! %[mkdir -p "#{deploy_to}/shared/log"]! queue! %[chmod g+rx,u+rwx "#{deploy_to}/shared/log"]! end! ! desc "Deploys the current version to the server."! task :deploy => :environment do! deploy do! invoke :'git:clone'! invoke :'deploy:link_shared_paths'! invoke :'bundle:install'! ! to :launch do! queue "touch #{deploy_to}/tmp/restart.txt"! end! end! end! desc "Deploys the current version to the server."! task :deploy => :environment do! deploy do! invoke :'git:clone'! invoke :'deploy:link_shared_paths'! ! to :launch do! end! end! end deploy.rb

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staging:! domain: staging.example.com! deploy_to: /var/www/staging_site! branch: master! ssh_options: "-A"! ! production:! domain: example.com! deploy_to: /var/www/site! branch: production! ssh_options: "-A"! ! default: staging environments.yml

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Capistrano

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Features ‣ Deploys to multiple environments out of the box. ‣ Ruby syntax

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Downsides ‣ Slower than Mina ‣ More complex ‣ Developer commitment seemed to waiver a but for awhile recently