modern frontend engineering
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Modern Frontend EngineeringBy Dustin Whittle
@dustinwhittle
The web has evolved tremendously in the last decade. In this talk we will dive into the latest tools and
techniques that make for a modern foundation for frontend engineering. We will start with bootstrapping with Yeoman, move into managing dependencies with bower, and finally how to automate best practices with Grunt and Gulp. We will discuss the pros and cons of
modern ui toolkits like Zurb, Bootstrap, and SemanticUI and modern javascript frameworks like React, Angular,
and Ember. We will highlight the latest in css frameworks, javascript frameworks, and why you should
choose the right toolset for complex app or a single page app. When you leave this session you will be
prepared to launch a modern web application in 2015.
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Application complexity is exploding
You kids have it easy!
Let me explain why…
Let’s start with bootstrapping
(you no longer have to write boilerplate)
Automate your frontend workflows
npm install -g grunt-cli
npm install -g gulp
Grunt and Gulp make it easy to incorporate best practices and
automate the tedious parts of web development.
I like Gulp because it is faster and simpler. Code
over configuration!
npm install -g bower
bower init
{ name: 'app', version: '0.0.0', authors: [ 'Dustin Whittle <[email protected]>' ], description: 'a demo app', main: ‘app.js', dependencies: { "jquery": "~2.x", } moduleType: [ 'es6' ], license: 'MIT', homepage: 'http://dustinwhittle.com/', ignore: [ '**/.*', 'node_modules', 'bower_components', 'test', 'tests' ] }
npm install -g yo
npm install -g yo bower grunt-cli gulp
npm install -g generator-webapp
yo webapp
Let's talk about frameworks
TodoMVC has been called many things including the 'Speed-
dating' and 'Rosetta Stone' of MV* frameworks.
It is not just web frameworks:
standards, browser testing, email templates, server configs, analytics…
Performance Matters• Treat performance as a feature
• Using the 14kb Rule for instant loading
• Markup management
• Eliminating excess AJAX calls
• Working with and around application cache
• Developing a responsive design + image strategy
• Implementing a good touch-first strategy
• Code management for good production and development experiences
• Using task runners to build and deploy production code
npm install psi
The protocols are evolving• The limitations of HTTP/1.X forced us to develop various application workarounds
(sharding, concatenation, spriting, inlining, etc.) to optimize performance. However, in the process we’ve also introduced numerous regressions: poor caching, unnecessary downloads, delayed execution, and more.
• HTTP/2 eliminates the need for these hacks and allows us to both simplify our applications and deliver improved performance.
• You should unshard, unconcat, and unsprite your assets
• You should switch from inlining to server push
• Read Ilya Grigorik awesome book on browser performance - http://hpbn.co/http2
webpagetest.org
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