Front-End Tooling with Gulp, Bower, and Yeoman

Summary

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.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

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

• Mastering web dev workflow patterns
• Automating the product delivery pipeline
• Creating custom workflows

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.

Table of Contents

PART 1 – A MODERN WORKFLOW FOR WEB APPLICATIONS
Chapter 1. Tooling In A Modern Front-End Workflow
Chapter 2. Getting Started With Gulp
Chapter 3. A Gulp Setup For Local Development
Chapter 4. Dependency Management With Bower
Chapter 5. Scaffolding With Yeoman

PART 2 – INTEGRATING AND EXTENDING THE PLATFORM
Chapter 1. Gulp For Different Environments
Chapter 2. Working With Streams
Chapter 3. Extending Gulp
Chapter 4. Creating Modules And Bower Components
Chapter 5. Advanced Yeoman Generators