DevTools Extensions For Web App Developers
The past year has seen many leaps made to improve developer productivity through better tooling. We're paying increasing attention to our workflow and many of us have spent time optimising our usage of...
View ArticleAuthor In ES6, Transpile To ES5 As A Build-step: A Workflow For Grunt
Preface: This article assumes prior knowledge of Grunt, the JavaScript task runner and that you've heard of Traceur, the ES.next to ES5 transpiler by Google. Getting started guides are available for...
View ArticleMaking Maven Grunt.
Introduction Developers working in agencies often tell us that they want to be able to use modern front-end tooling in their workflow. One set of options this manifests as is using Grunt for their...
View ArticleGenerate multi-resolution images for srcset with Grunt
As Mat Marquis recently summarized on SmashingMag, the srcset attribute allows developers to specify a list of sources for an image that are delivered depending on the pixel density of a user’s screen....
View ArticleTools for image optimization
As we saw a few weeks ago, the weight of an average web page is now almost 1.5MB (median ~1MB), with > 50% of this being images. It’s a harsh reminder that many of our pages on the web are …...
View Article5 Minutes With Yeoman
I recorded a quick video on getting started with Yeoman for anyone new to the project : ) You might also find building apps with the Yeoman workflow a helpful read.
View ArticleEnvironment-specific Builds With Grunt, Gulp or Broccoli
The dev, staging and production versions of our projects can vastly vary, which is one reason we may need to change paths to resources (scripts/styles/templates), generated markup or other content...
View ArticleGulp And Grunt Tasks For Performance Optimization
Delays in performance have the potential to impact user engagement, experience and revenue. Thankfully, Google’s ‘Make The Web Faster’ team recommend a set of best-practice rules for keeping your pages...
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