This talk was presented at Scotch on the Rocks on the 5th of June, 2014. This page can be referenced at http://ki.tt/sotr. Community note taking was offered at http://ki.tt/sotr14notes. Example and demo files are at http://ki.tt/sotr.zip.
You can download these slides at http://ki.tt/automate-sotr14.pdf. They are also available at https://speakerdeck.com/kitt/automate-all-the-front-end-things.
Notes follow the slide deck.
Prerequisites
Installing Node
- Go to http://nodejs.org/
- Click the green INSTALL button
- Follow directions
Install Ruby
Ruby has different flavors.
Alfred
http://alfredapp.com/
Quicksilver
http://qsapp.com/
Launchbar
http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/
Windows
Skylight
http://www.candylabs.com/skylight
Launchy
If you work across multiple OSs frequently, look into Launchy. Plugins are written in Python, and it runs across the three main operating systems.
http://www.launchy.net/
http://pylaunchy.sourceforge.net/docs/
FARR
This has been highly recommended to me.
https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/
Linux
Gnome Launch Box
https://live.gnome.org/
Gnome Do
http://do.davebsd.com/
Launchy
If you work across multiple OSs frequently, look into Launchy. Plugins are written in Python, and it runs across the three main operating systems.
http://www.launchy.net/
http://pylaunchy.sourceforge.net/docs/
Offline documentation
Dash
http://kapeli.com/dash
Paid application, Mac only
Zeal
http://zealdocs.org/
Open Source, free.
Alfred workflows
https://github.com/zenorocha/alfred-workflows/
https://github.com/aiyodk/Alfred-Extensions/tree/master/AlfredApp_2.x
https://github.com/willfarrell/alfred-workflows
Grunt
Grunt http://gruntjs.com/
Download init grunt config files http://ki.tt/fgrf
Central node module repository http://npmjs.org
Microsoft provided Windows VMs
http://modern.ie
These expire after 6 months. Are fantastic.
Good suggestion for aliases for you to consider.
history | cut -c8-120 | cut -d" " -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort
Find aliases to use at http://alias.sh/
Follow @climagic http://twitter.com/climagic for some serious command line magic
Bash scripting best practices http://www.kfirlavi.com/blog/2012/11/14/defensive-bash-programming/
Preprocessors
There's Sass, LESS, and Stylus. I talk about Sass, as it's what I use, there's a big community behind it, it has forward momentum, and it works well with the SMACSS style of CSS organization.
Sass
http://sass-lang.com/
Compass
http://compass-style.org/
Library that extends Sass. Has good image handling, uses CanIUse.com to determine output.
Bourbon
http://bourbon.io/
If you don't need sprite generation that Compass has, use Bourbon, does the same thing, nominally the same syntax, and is lighter.
Write your own breakpoint mixin, or use Breakpoint Sass http://breakpoint-sass.com/
GUIs for Sass/Compass compile
Codekit
https://incident57.com/codekit/
Compass App
http://compass.kkbox.com/
Koala App
http://koala-app.com/
GUI for Grunt?!?
Yep. Grunt Devtools
https://github.com/vladikoff/grunt-devtools
Regression testing
phantomCSS: https://github.com/Huddle/PhantomCSS
wraith: https://github.com/BBC-News/wraith
diffux: https://github.com/diffux/diffux
dpxdt: https://github.com/bslatkin/dpxdt
Faster HTML writing
Emmet
http://docs.emmet.io/