Chapter 1. Tooling in a modern front-end workflow
This chapter covers
- Tedious and repetitive tasks of a front-end developer
- Scaffolding boilerplate code
- Dependency management
- Build tools and task runners
- A combined toolchain and workflow for front-end development
This is a great time to be a front-end developer. Browsers are more advanced than ever, and with the new technologies of the HTML5 era come numerous new possibilities. JavaScript isn’t a toy language anymore and is used for a large variety of applications. The fat client—running the majority of an application’s code directly in the browser, and thus the front end—is embraced and considered a good development strategy for web applications.
With JavaScript being taken seriously, ...
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