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@jonthanfielding #FrontendTooling Tools and Workflow Jonathan Fielding - @jonthanfielding ! Please use hashtag #FrontendTooling for this talk

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling With responsive design, our jobs as developers is getting harder

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling It’s important we get the most out of our workﬂow

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@jonthanfielding #FrontendTooling What tools can I use to enhance my web development? Where do these tools fit in a development workflow?

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling The problem was…

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling I found a sea of tools

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling I found a sea of tools

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling But how do I sift between them all?

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling How do I know which tools suit the way I work?

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling First we can split them into the parts of our workﬂow

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Scaffolding

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling What do scaffolding tools do? • Setup a boilerplate • Install dependencies and sometimes - • conﬁgure build tools • setup source control

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling What tools can I use for scaffolding Grunt-init Yeoman

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Yeoman

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Install Yeoman

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Install a Yeoman Generator

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Install a Yeoman Generator

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Scaffold with a Yeoman Generator

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Scaffold with a Yeoman Generator

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Project structure

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Demo

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Grunt-init

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Install Grunt-init

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Install Grunt-init template

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Run Grunt-init

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Run Grunt-init

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Project structure

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Demo

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Abstractions

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling What are abstractions? • Abstract away from the languages of the web • Aim to make development quicker, simpler • Compile to the browsers native language

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Examples of abstractions • CSS Preprocessors   e.g Sass, Stylus and Less • HTML Abstractions   e.g HAML, Markdown • Javascript Abstractions   e.g Typescript, CoffeeScript, Dart

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling CSS Preprocessors

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Features of CSS Preprocessors • Variables • Nesting • Import stylesheets • Mixins • Functions

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling What CSS Preprocessors are available Less Sass

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling What is Sass? An abstraction of CSS called a   CSS pre-processor which is written in Ruby

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Install Sass

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@jonthanfielding #FrontendTooling Sass Syntax @import “variables";! @import “mixins";! ! .class-name {! background: #000;! p {! @include font-size(14px);! color: $text-color;! ! span {! color: #eee;! }! }! } Import other Sass files Use mixin to generate CSS Nesting Use variable to define color

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Compile Sass

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Compiled CSS /* line 1, ../sass/screen.scss */! .class-name {! background: #000;! }! /* line 3, ../sass/screen.scss */! .class-name p {! font-size: 14px;! color: #fff;! }! /* line 6, ../sass/screen.scss */! .class-name p span {! color: #eee;! }!

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling What is Less? An abstraction of CSS called a   CSS pre-processor which is written in JavaScript

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Install Less

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Less Syntax @import “variables.less”;! @import “mixin.less”! ! .class-name {! background: #000;! p {! ! ! .font14();! color: #fff;! ! span {! color: #eee;! }! }! } Import other Sass ﬁles Use mixin to generate CSS Nesting

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Compile Less

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Compiled CSS .class-name {! background: #000;! }! ! .class-name p {! font-size: 14px;! color: #fff;! }! ! .class-name p span {! color: #eee;! }!

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling HTML Abstractions

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling What is Markdown? A text formatting engine that can be compiled into other languages, commonly used to generate HTML

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Install Markdown

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Markdown Syntax #Main Heading! ! ##Secondary Heading! ! Integer posuere erat a ante venenatis dapibus posuere velit aliquet.! ! Integer posuere erat a ante venenatis dapibus posuere velit aliquet.! ! ###Todo List! ! * Compile markdown Heading 1 Paragraphs Heading 2 Heading 3 List

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Compile Markdown

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Compiled HTML

Main Heading

Secondary Heading

Integer posuere erat a ante venenatis dapibus posuere velit aliquet.

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Compile markdown

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Iteration

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling What is Iteration? • Every time we save our code and view it in our browser we are creating an iteration of the site • We save, refresh our browser, go back to our editor

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling What are iteration tools? • Tools that enable us to quickly iterate by automating steps we need to take after each save

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling What tools can I use for iterating Grunt Bower

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Grunt

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling What is Grunt? Grunt is a task runner which enables us to automate tasks by deﬁning tasks it should run

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling What tasks can Grunt run? • Compilation of Abstractions • Unit Testing • Linting • Concatenation • Miniﬁcation • and many more

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Installing Grunt Grunt comes in two parts: Install Command Line Tool Globally ! Install grunt locally

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@jonthanfielding #FrontendTooling Create a Gruntfile.js module.exports = function(grunt) { //Grunt configuration goes here grunt.initConfig({ pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'), ! }); };

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Setting up a task In the console

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@jonthanfielding #FrontendTooling Setting up a task In the Gruntfile.js grunt.initConfig({! pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),! compass: {! dev: {! options: {! sassDir: 'sass',! cssDir: 'css',! imagesDir: 'images',! environment: 'development',! httpGeneratedImagesPath: ' images'! }! }! }! });! Task Target

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Setting up a task In the Gruntﬁle.js grunt.loadNpmTasks(‘grunt-contrib-compass’);! ! grunt.registerTask('default', ['compass:dev']);

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Demo

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Bower

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling What is Bower? Bower is a package manager that enables us to install dependencies

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Install Bower

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Install a package using Bower

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Demo

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Splitting out the tools into steps of our workﬂow is great

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling But tools don’t always ﬁt into one part of our process

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Any questions?

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling Check out my new book • Learn how to make your sites responsive • Chapter on development tools and workﬂow • http://bitly.com/NXusZn • Discount code: 30HT14

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@jonthanﬁelding #FrontendTooling TalkTalk is hiring • Looking for 2-3 Senior Developers • Looking for 1-2 Mid-weight Developers • Grab me if your interested

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@jonthanfielding #FrontendTooling Find out more about frontend workflow at frontendworkflow.com