Web Development Workflow
Javascript Development Workflow of 2013
Video: Javascript Development Workflow of 2013 by Paul Irish (PDF)
- A Baseline for Front-End Developers
- Shell:
- Shell customizations: http://dotfiles.github.io/
- Faves: z script (for jumping), server alias
- Editor:
- learn it well, most important
- Code linting is your first unit test.
- Realtime Feedback
- live linting
- live recompilation
- live reload
- Javascript
- Modules / Dependency management
- AMD modules
- CommonJS modules
- ECMAScript Harmony modules
- Minispade require (ember.js example)
- Tricks:
- Template precompilation - into functions in a build step and ship the compiled templates.
- Custom build output based on build-time forks. (require.js optimizier)
- More module magic from Alex Sexton (MVC MODULE MAGIC)
- Modules / Dependency management
- Package Management - cooming soon.
- In-Browser Devtools
- sourceURL (Source Mapping, Source Mapping Compile Demo)
- source maps - full live debugging on source files with Chrome Dev tools.
- Navigating scripts
- Mobile
- Test in Chrome
- Emulate touches, override device metrics
- Emulators & Browserstack
- Real device & Adobe Shadow
- Chrome on Android w/ DevTools
- Test in Chrome
Testing
- Jasmin, QUnit or Mocha
- Execute tests in a variety of settings:
- In the Browser
- In a headless browser on-demand via cmd line
- In a headless browser post-push. Continuous Integration
- https://travis-ci.org/ - on every commit - test.
- In multiple browsers via cmd line
- bunyip -f test/index.html
- In multiple browsers in the cloud via cmd line
- bunyip -f test/index.html -b ios