Gulp, Sass, and BabelJS, Oh My! In this course, you’ll learn how to setup your development, get super productive during daily work and iteration, prevent yourself and your site from disasters and save a lot of time and effort with automatic optimization and automation. Finally, you’ll learn how to do all this while being confident your code runs on a multitude of devices in the real world.
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Front-end developers need to work quickly and efficiently to be productive. Having a good set of tools and libraries is crucial. This course will introduce you to a opinionated set of tools and libraries to improve your workflow.
What You Will Learn
Lesson 1
Introduction
- Being pragmatic vs. idealistic when choosing tools.
- Identify the real value of the tool.
- Keep things modular and replaceable.
Lesson 2
Productive Editing
- Set up your editor.
- Install Sublime Text.
- Install Plugins.
Lesson 3
Powerful Builds
- Getting started with Gulp.
- Install gulp plugins.
- Create gulp tasks.
Lesson 4
Expressive Live Editing
- Why live edit?
- Approaches for live editing.
- Testing with Browser Sync.
Lesson 5
How to Prevent Disasters
- Code correction with linting.
- ESLint.
- Unit testing in Gulp.
Lesson 6
Awesome Optimizations
- CSS concatenation.
- JS concatenation and minification.
- Sourcemaps.
Prerequisites and Requirements
We expect that you have basic experience with JavaScript and a text editor, like Sublime Text or Atom.
If you need more experience with JavaScript, check out our JavaScript Basics course.
