Front End Development Tools

Finding automated solutions to work more efficiently.

Bowe

Front end package manager. Manage other people’s code for dependencies, such as Foundation, Bootstrap etc. Bower will look for it and download the recent version so you don’t need to do it manually. It will fetch the information and including dependencies along with it.

Example:
$ bower install package-name

Gulp.js

Sass compilation and minification

The API
Pipes: grab something, do something, move along

 

create a fuction and something awesome happens which can then be piped into plugins then inserted.

Gulp.watch

$ npm install xxxxx

Watch files and if something changes do something.
For instance look for changes in sass.scss file and run it

This can work with Desktop Server

Can provide live browser refresh while you code once the file is saved. once you start using sass and mixins you can code efficiently and in a live or sandbox environment.

Automation of the tedious tasks so you can focus on design using various libraries etc.

Zeek has a starter theme

It can do shell operations.

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