Front-end Web Development with Ruby

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Front-end WEB DEVELOPMENT with Ruby maTT BUCK @TECHPEACE

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A (very) Little About Me

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current gig

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previous gigs

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Learn you a for great job Ruby

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Coder’s The Front-end Predicament

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1995 2000 2005 2010 You Oughta Know Source: evolutionoftheweb.com

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1995 2000 2005 2010 You Oughta Know 1995 HTML 2 Source: evolutionoftheweb.com

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1995 2000 2005 2010 You Oughta Know 1995 HTML 2 1997 CSS 2 JavaScript Source: evolutionoftheweb.com

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1995 2000 2005 2010 You Oughta Know 1995 HTML 2 1997 CSS 2 JavaScript Source: evolutionoftheweb.com 2005 AJAX

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1995 2000 2005 2010 You Oughta Know 1995 HTML 2 1997 CSS 2 JavaScript Source: evolutionoftheweb.com 2007 Mobile 2005 AJAX

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1995 2000 2005 2010 You Oughta Know 1995 HTML 2 1997 CSS 2 JavaScript Source: evolutionoftheweb.com 2007 Mobile 2013 CSS 3 HTML5 2005 AJAX

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1995 2000 2005 2010 You Oughta Know Source: evolutionoftheweb.com 2013 CSS 3 HTML5

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You Oughta Know 2013 CSS 3 Animation 2D/3D transforms Fonts

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You Oughta Know 2013 CSS 3 Animation 2D/3D transforms Fonts HTML5 Semantic elements Local storage Video/audio Geolocation Drag and drop

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You Oughta Know 2013 CSS 3 Animation 2D/3D transforms Fonts JavaScript MVC AMD CoffeeScript HTML5 Semantic elements Local storage Video/audio Geolocation Drag and drop

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You Oughta Know 2013 responsive design accessibility canvas WebGL WebSocket

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You Oughta Know 2013 minification linting asset packaging responsive design accessibility canvas WebGL WebSocket pushState templating

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You Oughta Know 2013 minification linting asset packaging responsive design accessibility canvas WebGL WebSocket pushState templating jQuery Modernizr Twitter Bootstrap HTML5 Boilerplate RequireJS UglifyJS Underscore

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Everybody HATES tag clouds

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RECAP The explosive growth of the web has dramatically increased the complexity of front-end development

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Markup: There has to be a better way

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This doesn't seem right.

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Now I'm very concerned.

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Now I'm very concerned.

Do I have to?

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Markaby Markup as Ruby div.menu do %w[5.gets bits inspect cult -h].map do |m| capture { link_to m, "/#{m}" } end.join(" | ") end

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Markaby Markup as Ruby

Now I'm very concerned.

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Markaby Markup as Ruby div do ul do li do span "Still a bit concerned." end end end

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Markaby Markup as Ruby div do ul do li do span "Still a bit concerned." end end end

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div do ul do li do span "Still a bit concerned." end end end

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%div %ul %li %span That's better. Haml

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#comments %ul.fancy %li %span{style: 'color: green;'} That's better. Haml

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#comments ul.fancy li span style='color: green;' That's better. slim

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RECAP HTML Markaby Haml slim good terse terser tersest

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Stylesheets: I know I put that selector here someplace

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nav ul { list-style: none; } nav ul li { color: red; font-weight: bold; font-style: serif; font-size: 12px; } h1 { color: red; } CSS

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nav ul { list-style: none; } nav ul li { color: red; font-weight: bold; font-style: serif; font-size: 12px; } h1 { color: red; } CSS

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nav ul { list-style: none; } nav ul li { color: red; font-weight: bold; font-style: serif; font-size: 12px; } h1 { color: red; } CSS

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nav ul { list-style: none; } nav ul li { color: red; font-weight: bold; font-style: serif; font-size: 12px; } h1 { color: red; } CSS

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nav ul { list-style: none; } nav ul li { color: red; font-weight: bold; font-style: serif; font-size: 12px; } h1 { color: red; } CSS $text-color: red; nav { ul { list-style: none; li { color: $text-color; font: { weight: bold; style: serif; size: 12px; } } } } h1 { color: $text-color; } SCSS

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Sass Variables $green: #67917A; $border-width: 5px; .callout { border: { width: $border-width * 2; color: darken($green, 30%); } }

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Sass Mixins @mixin index-table { th { font-weight: bold; } tr:nth-child(2n) { background-color: #e2e2e2; } } table.users { @include index-table; }

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= Sass + CSS3 mixins + layouts + typography patterns +

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Compass CSS3 .rounded { @include border-radius; } SCSS

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Compass CSS3 .rounded { -webkit-border-radius: 5px 5px; -moz-border-radius: 5px / 5px; -khtml-border-radius: 5px / 5px; border-radius: 5px / 5px; } CSS

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Compass CSS3 Appearance Background Clip Background Origin Background Size Border Radius Box Box Shadow Box Sizing Columns Filter Font Face Hyphenation Images Inline Block Opacity CSS Regions Text Shadow Transform / Transition

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Madness!

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aside h2 Keynote Speakers ul li Matz li Uncle Bob slim Source: “Help, My Stylesheets are a Mess!” - Chriss Eppstein

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SCSS Source: “Help, My Stylesheets are a Mess!” - Chriss Eppstein aside { $dark-blue: #234767; $light-blue: #7ED4ED; background-color: $dark-blue; border: 2px solid lighten($dark-blue, 40%); color: $light-blue; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; @include box-shadow; margin: 15px; padding: 15px; h2 { font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.5em; } ul { list-style: square; margin: 15px 20px; } }

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Source: “Help, My Stylesheets are a Mess!” - Chris Eppstein aside { $dark-blue: #234767; $light-blue: #7ED4ED; background-color: $dark-blue; border: 2px solid lighten($dark-blue, 40%); color: $light-blue; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; @include box-shadow; margin: 15px; padding: 15px; h2 { font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.5em; } ul { list-style: square; margin: 15px 20px; } }

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Source: “Help, My Stylesheets are a Mess!” - Chris Eppstein aside { @extend .highlight-text; } .highlight-text { font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; h2 { font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.5em; } } Typography

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Container .shadow-box { @include box-shadow; border: 2px solid lighten($dark-blue, 40%); margin: 15px; padding: 15px; } Source: “Help, My Stylesheets are a Mess!” - Chris Eppstein

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Color .dark-background { background-color: $dark-blue; } .high-contrast { color: $light-blue; } Source: “Help, My Stylesheets are a Mess!” - Chris Eppstein

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aside { @extend .highlight-text; @extend .shadow-box; @extend .dark-background; @extend .high-contrast; ul { list-style: square; margin: 15px 20px; } } Source: “Help, My Stylesheets are a Mess!” - Chris Eppstein

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$ compass create mysite --using blueprint

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RECAP Use SCSS and Compass to organize properties:

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RECAP Use SCSS and Compass to organize properties: container

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RECAP Use SCSS and Compass to organize properties: container color

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RECAP Use SCSS and Compass to organize properties: container color typography

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Automation: Flow my work, the policeman said

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guard filesystem watcher

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Source: Viget Extend - “Ruby Tools for Non-Ruby Projects” guard 'slim' do watch /^.+\.slim$/ end guard 'compass' do watch /^.+(\.scss)/ end Guardfile

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Source: Viget Extend - “Ruby Tools for Non-Ruby Projects” $ bundle install $ bundle exec guard

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guard wants to do these things for you: compile CoffeeScript compile Haml livereload run hinters/linters run Jasmine tests

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vizr MassRelevance/vizr

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JavaScript workflow automation

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grunt

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bower $ npm install -g bower $ bower install $ bower install underscore

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yeoman $ yo webapp $ npm install && bower install $ bower install underscore $ grunt

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RECAP Use Guard to automate workflow, delve into JavaScript, or build your own gem

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Static sites: Putting it all together, now

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jekyll _config.yml _posts/ $ jekyll --server

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Octopress

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Middleman

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Middleman + Padrino

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Middleman + Padrino templates partials layouts helpers

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techpeace/api-site-base api-site-base

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$ compass create api-site-base -r bootstrap-sass --using bootstrap $ middleman init api-site-base

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1 doctype html 2 html 3 head 4 meta charset="utf-8" 5 6 /! Always force latest IE rendering engine or request Chrome Frame 7 meta content="IE=edge,chrome=1" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" 8 9 /! Use title if it's in the page YAML frontmatter 10 title = data.page.title || "The Middleman" 11 12 == stylesheet_link_tag "styles" 13 == javascript_include_tag "all" 14 15 body class=page_classes 16 == partial 'navbar' 17 18 .container 19 == yield 20 21 .footer 22 .row 23 .span12 24 | ©2012 Product 25 layout.slim

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body class=page_classes == partial 'navbar' Partials

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.row .span12 h1 Product API Documentation .row .span12 p = lorem.sentences 7 .row.wells == well 'Documentation', 'settings.png', 'Read the docs' == well 'Examples', 'screen.png', 'Read some code' == well 'Getting Started', 'globe.png', 'Write some code' index.html.slim Templates

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layout.slim Templates .container == yield

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.row.wells == well 'Documentation', 'settings.png', 'Read the docs' == well 'Examples', 'screen.png', 'Read some code' == well 'Getting Started', 'globe.png', 'Write some code' index.html.slim

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lorem.sentences 3 Lorem Helpers

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You’ve got options... high_voltage Nanoc stasis Webby Frank StaticMatic brochure ruhoh Bonsai Webgen Korma Dynamicmatic Ace machined deplot Source: ruby-toolbox.com

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Backend as a Service

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Backend as a Service Parse

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Backend as a Service Parse

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TodoMVC

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TodoMVC

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techpeace/todomvc-parse

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Parse.initialize("LjeawWUFxAcVb1QAIwqV2mbh9c2keODx73rYkISk", "vmmYKly7zibzYvZ70WQvFc7UB64pgPJ7aT41317c");

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app.Todo = Backbone.Model.extend({ defaults: { title: '', completed: false }, toggle: function() { this.save({ completed: !this.get('completed') }); } });

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app.Todo = Parse.Object.extend({ // Map this model to the appropriate // Parse class. className: "Todo", defaults: { title: '', completed: false }, toggle: function() { this.save({ completed: !this.get('completed') }); } });

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var TodoList = Backbone.Collection.extend({

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var TodoList = Parse.Collection.extend({

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STEP 4 MISSING

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Deployment

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Behold: todo.matthewbuck.com

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Backlift

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Backlift

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Backlift

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Backlift

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Backlift

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Backlift

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Backlift

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Backlift

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Backlift

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RECAP jekyll Octopress Middleman Parse/Backlift GitHub page blog static site “static” site

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fin

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