How To Harness The Machines: Being Productive With Task Runners
Task runners are the heroes (or villains, depending on your point of view) that quietly toil behind most web and mobile applications. Task runners provide value through the automation of numerous development tasks such as concatenating files, spinning up development servers and compiling code. In this article, we’ll cover Grunt, Gulp, Webpack and npm scripts. We’ll also provide some examples of each one to get you started. Near the end, I’ll throw out some easy wins and tips for integrating ideas from this post into your application.
- Getting Started
- Compiling (or “transpiling” or whatever) to JS Web Rebels
- Minify Your CSS & JavaScript LevelUpTuts
- VSCode ESLint, Prettier & Airbnb Style Guide Setup Traversy Media
- Why You Need A Build System Like Grunt, Gulp, Brunch For Your Website LearnCode.academy
- What the hell is Gulp? Alessandro Castellani
- Gulp 4 Crash Course for Beginners Coder Coder
- Getting Good
- How To Harness The Machines: Being Productive With Task Runners Adam Simpson
- What Is Webpack? LevelUpTuts
- Babel.js: What It Is, and How You Can Use It Strezabyte
- Use Babel & Webpack To Compile ES2015 - ES2017 Traversy Media
- Webpack & TypeScript The Net Ninja