Front-End Tooling with Gulp, Bower, and Yeoman teaches you how to use and combine these popular tools to set up a customized development workflow from start to finish.
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About the Technology
In large web dev projects, productivity is all about workflow. Great workflow requires tools like Gulp, Bower, and Yeoman that can help you automate the design-build-deploy pipeline. Together, the Yeoman scaffolding tool, Bower dependency manager, and Gulp automation build system radically shorten the time it takes to release web applications.
About the Book
Front-End Tooling with Gulp, Bower, and Yeoman teaches you how to set up an automated development workflow. You'll start by understanding the big picture of the development process. Then, using patterns and examples, this in-depth book guides you through building a product delivery pipeline using Gulp, Bower, and Yeoman. When you're done, you'll have an intimate understanding of the web development process and the skills you need to create a powerful, customized workflow using these best-of-breed tools.
What's Inside
About the Reader
This book is suitable for front-end developers with JavaScript experience.
About the Author
Stefan Baumgartner has led front-end teams working across a wide range of development styles and application domains.
An informative overview of tooling used in front-end projects. The book introduces each of the tools in part 1 and then does deeper dives into the tools in part 2. The introduction to tools was brisk and engaging. The deep dive into Gulp tool was detailed and touched upon most common scenarios. I liked this aspect. While I enjoyed the overview part about Yeoman tool, I skimmed over the deep dive as I doubt I (or most FE devs) would be creating new generators. As for the parts about Bower, I skimmed over them because Bower is now out-dated.
Overall a good place to start learning about Gulp and Yeoman (and, may be, Bower).