Ask HN: What are the essential components of your front-end workflow?

Re:Ask HN: What are the essential components of your front-e... by mattdesl on Sunday July 27, 2014 @02:44PM (#8093571)

I'm a big fan of npm and modular code.

  - npm to manage dependencies and versions
  - npm-scripts to handle basic build tasks
  - beefy during module development 
    (when a bundle isn't necessary) 
  - watchify & browserify/uglifyjs during app development 
    (when a bundle is necessary)
  - gulp if the project is more involved (LESS, etc)
  - grunt if the project is with a team 
  - tape / tap for testing, and testlingify for the git hook

I try to avoid bower since it's no good for re-usable modules. But sometimes you can't avoid it (e.g. threejs, pixi).

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Re:Ask HN: What are the essential components of your front-e... by pault on Sunday July 27, 2014 @02:52PM (#8093602)

This is the exact workflow I've settled on. NPM run scripts until the build complexity gets overwhelming, then build a grunt or gulp taskfile. Tape is awesome.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the essential components of your front-e... by Kiro on Sunday July 27, 2014 @02:45PM (#8093579)

Why is grunt better than gulp for teams?

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Re:Ask HN: What are the essential components of your front-e... by mattdesl on Sunday July 27, 2014 @02:57PM (#8093618)

Because it's been around for longer; new devs are more likely to be familiar with it, easier to find tutorials/docs on the web, better stability, more tasks to choose from, etc.

They are both good though... it won't make a big difference if you choose one over the other.

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