Front-end build and workflow tools are available in abundance: Grunt, Gulp, Broccoli, and Jake to name but a few. These tools can automate almost anything you find yourself doing repeatedly in a project, from minifying and concatenating source files, to running tests or compiling code. But the question is, do you need ...
Some say that a web page should start with HTML, which is (or was) thought of as content, and that functionality should load on top of that (the filtering etc). Right or wrong? With so much content now generated dynamically, perhaps it’s time to revisit the way we do website design. Whichever way you lean, the back-e...
The Node Package Manager (a.k.a. npm) has given web developers easy access to a lot of awesome JavaScript modules and has made our lives considerably easier when trying to find and manage dependencies for our applications. It also makes it easy for developers to create and publish their own modules, meaning that other ...
Optimizing page speed is undoubtedly a primary focus for any developer building web applications. Task runners such as Grunt can play a pivotal role in the development process as they automate the activities of code concatenation and minification, which will be the main topics of this tutorial. Specifically, we’re go...
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