- Codekit 2 9 – Build Websites Faster And Better Home
- Codekit 2 9 – Build Websites Faster And Better Business
- Codekit 2 9 – Build Websites Faster And Better Quality
- Codekit 2 9 – Build Websites Faster And Better Fps
Web development tools have come a long way with improved technologies. New tools are introduced every year. Front end development tools has changed significantly over the past 10 to 15 years with the emerging growth of JavaScript. Front end development is also called as client-side programming which uses HTML, JavaScript and CSS languages to code the websites that run on the browsers. The role of a front end web developer is to create websites that offer better user experience and interactive features. We can harness the power of highly tested libraries & tools to improve workflow and achieve responsive websites. This is why we have created a list of top 6 development tools
Front End Development Tools To Master in 2020
- CodeKit helps you build websites faster and better.Compile Everything: Process Less, Sass, Stylus, Jade, Haml, Slim, CoffeeScript, Javascript, and Compass files automatically each time you save. Easily set options for each language.Live Browser Reloads: Instantly see changes in your brow.
- CodeKit is a design tool software that helps to build your website faster and better on Mac. It compiles everything automatically including typescript, Haml, Less.
CodePen
CodeKit helps you build websites faster and better. Features ・Compile Everything: – Process Less, Sass, Stylus, Jade, Haml, Slim, CoffeeScript, Javascript, and Compass files automatically each time you save.
Codepen is one of the best front end development tools and it is lighter, faster & reliable. It is easy to get started with & also provides auto updates whenever the user makes changes. Codepen is a social development environment for front end developers & designers. It is the best place to deploy and build websites. It supports almost all libraries. Codepen offers a variety of features like preprocessors; embed features, live view and sync, the pattern library, prefill API, templates, etc. It is a great front end development tool to build small components without setting up the development environment. It gives instant access to preprocessors such as CoffeeScript, LiveScript, TypeScript, Babel, Less, Sass, SCSS, Stylus and the newer PostCSS.
Npm
NPM stands for Node Package Manager. Node JS is the emerging face for web development. It is the Node JS package manager for JavaScript that helps to discover packages of reusable code. It is the web development tool with command line utility that interacts with the repository in the package. It is one of the fastest growing package managers that all front end developers should learn. NPM’s reuse and discover includes over 5, 00,000 free code packages in the registry that allows developers to reuse and modify codes for their own purposes. It is also an awesome team management tool with powerful integrations that simplify your workflow and supercharge your projects.
CodeKit
Codekit is a front end development tool that provides a unified interface using which you can view live projects developed using bootstrap 4 web development framework & languages such as LESS, Sass, Haml, Kit, Stylus, Compass and Bourbon. It combines checks and minifies the JavaScript pages. It automates the compilation of numerous languages and installation of frameworks which allows working efficiently with JavaScript, CSS and HTML. Codekit is one of the best web development tools with multi-lingual compiler support, check syntax, validate and autoprefixer. It is the graphical user interface for searching project dependencies and managing version updates. It also includes a web server tool that hosts project files locally without setting up the local web server.
Sublime Text
Sublime text is a cross platform source code editor with built in features like multi edit mode, plugins, and snippets support. It is a functional, clean and fast code editor with a python application programming interface API. It provides support for programming languages & markup languages with the variety of features like command palette. It is compatible with many languages that allows editing and interactive changes to multiple areas.
Sublime text is built from customized components that provides responsive editing support with syntax highlighting engine. It can capture the full contents of the workspace that includes unsaved and modified files. You can switch between projects instantly with no save prompts. It is also customizable with JSON files that gives you flexibility using snippets, macros, completions, key bindings, menus and more.
Grid Guide
Grid Guide is an important front end development tool that lets you generate grids, and define custom gutters and columns. It is a simple tool that adds guides based on the selected layers, artboards and canvas. It is a free web app that allows downloads of the PNG of each grid for importing into Illustrator & Photoshop. It is an effective tool that helps create new grids from scratch without calculating manually. Grid Guide helps you create the perfect grid within your application design as per the pixel details such as columns, rows, midpoints and baselines.
Yeoman
Yeoman is one of the greatest tools available for front end web developers. It aims to scaffold workflows for creating web applications and allows generating the bunch of different projects that support SASS and Bower. It is a web based scaffolding tool that allows robust, client side stack, tools and frameworks that help developers build modern web applications.
Yeoman tool workflow comprises into 3 different types of tools for improving the productivity of the web development as scaffolding tool, the build tool and package manager. All these tools are maintained and developed separately to make the workflow effective.
These 6 are a few tools that every front end developer should essentially have on hand. It can help speed up the process of development as well as make it easier to build more complex websites.
The following is a guest post by Bryan Jones, the creator of CodeKit. I've been using CodeKit for a couple of years now and I've talked about it plenty. In my opinion it changed the game in front end development making it easy to use advanced tools that, while powerful, felt out of reach for many. Now CodeKit 2.0 it out, which has followed the landscape of front end development, bringing us more powerful tools that are tough to pull off otherwise. Bryan is going to introduce it, and I'll interject here and there to share my thoughts as I've been using 2.0 the last month or so.
What is CodeKit?
CodeKit is an app that helps you build websites faster. It compiles all the cutting-edge languages like Sass, Less, Stylus and CoffeeScript. It live-refreshes your browsers. It combines, minifies and syntax-checks JavaScript. It even optimizes images. All stuff that speeds up both your website and your workflow. Checkpoint 1 1 – verify without copying data.
There are other ways to do these things, but CodeKit's mission is to take the pain out of the process. You drop your project folder onto the app and get to work. No JSON files to edit, nothing to install or download. No commands to memorize. It just works.
What's New in 2.0?
For starters I hired a designer (Guy Meyer) so the UI no longer looks like it was repeatedly beaten with a DOS 5.1 manual. The new version is also 1,400% faster thanks to a bunch of optimizations and works a lot better in team environments.
But what you really care about is how it can make you faster. So instead of listing every new feature, here's the top four that will make a difference right away:
1. Refresh Every Browser
Your website has to look good on lots of devices. You pull it up on an iPhone, an iPad, a Galaxy S3, Chrome, Firefox and even IE 11 on a PC. That's a lot of refresh buttons to click. CodeKit can do that for you.
CodeKit will now live-refresh all of these devices and more. Make a change to your code and a split-second later, every device updates to show those changes. No plugins, no complex configurations. It works even with advanced sites like WordPress and Drupal. Just click the Preview button in CodeKit and then copy the URL to your other devices. Once you see this in action, you won't work without it ever again.
Note from Chris: Not only does the page literally refresh when you change something like a template or JavaScript file, the page will do style injection for CSS changes (whether they came from a preprocessor or not). Meaning designing for interactive states is a lot easier.
CodeKit 1 could do style injection too, but now CodeKit has it's own server built-in (which can forward to MAMP or anything else if you prefer) meaning that literally any browser gets the refreshing and style injection.
2. Bower
Bower lets you quickly install over 7,000 components: jQuery, Modernizr, Bootstrap, even WordPress. Bower is now built-in to CodeKit, so all those resources are just two clicks away. Open the Assets area, select the components you want and click the cloud icon. CodeKit grabs the latest versions from the web, along with any required dependencies, and puts them right in your project.
CodeKit also saves you a ton of work when it's time to update components. Just open the Assets area and choose the Installed tab. Music paradise player 1 0 3 full. It'll show you the version of each component in your project and what the latest one available online is. Update them all with a single click, or pick and choose.
Note from Chris: while I haven't had a chance to use Bower a bunch yet, keeping front end dependencies up to date is the #1 reason I want to.
3. Autoprefixer
Vendor prefixes: the CSS rules that only an IE6 Engineer could love. Autoprefixer makes them painless and it's now built-in to CodeKit. You just write standard CSS and Autoprefixer adds all the necessary vendor prefixes based on the latest information about each browser. It works seamlessly with Less, Sass and Stylus. It's also totally configurable: just specify which browsers you need to support and it does the rest.
Note from Chris: I think Autoprefixer is almost as big of a game changer as CodeKit itself, and they are a perfect match for each other. While I'm still a big fan of preprocessors, I'm no longer a fan of using them for prefixing. Autoprefixer is a much better way to handle it. You can learn more about it from it's creator here.
4. Libsass
You're reading CSS-Tricks, so you probably write Sass. It takes a few seconds to compile, right? Not anymore. Flip on Libsass in CodeKit and your Sass compiles instantly. Libsass is a new Sass compiler written in C instead of Ruby, so it's like Justin-Beiber-tanking-his-billion-dollar-singing-career fast.
Now, Libsass is a beta, and some advanced Sass features (like namespaces and the new 3.3 syntax additions) aren't supported yet. But Libsass is advancing rapidly and the goal is to reach complete parity by this summer. Unless you're doing really complex stuff, you can probably use it today and drastically speed up your work. (We used it on CodeKit's site and that one has some really bleeding-edge CSS going on.)
Note from Chris: While Bryan correctly joked I prefer Sass, I don't care tremendously much what you use, because there are things that are very likeable about all the CSS preprocessors. One of the few strikes against Sass is that it's slow to compile compared to the JavaScript-based preprocessors. Libsass makes Sass the fastest as well, so that's pretty awesome (if you can use it).
More Cool Stuff
OK, I lied. There's way too many new features to stop at just four. Here's four more features you'll love:
Source Maps
CodeKit can create source maps for Sass, Less, CoffeeScript, JavaScript and TypeScript files. (By the way, CodeKit compiles TypeScript now.) Source maps let you see your original source code in the browser's web inspector instead of the compiled output, which makes debugging easy.
Zurb Foundation
There's now a 'New Zurb Foundation Project' command that pulls down the latest version of Zurb Foundation from the web and sets it up automatically. This was a really common feature request.
Hooks
Need to run a custom AppleScript or Bash script when files in your project change? Maybe tell Transmit or Coda to sync to a remote server? Gzip some files? No problem. Just set up a Hook and CodeKit will run whatever you need.
Note from Chris: It would be interesting to see it run Grunt or Gulp. Part of the beauty of Grunt is there are a zillion things it can do - things that can be super specific and probably aren't a good fit for a core CodeKit feature (e.g. the SVG stuff I described here). I'm not sure if mixing multiple build tools is a good idea or not, but it's worth thinking about.
CoffeeScript Love
If you write CoffeeScript, CodeKit has two new features you'll like. First, you can now prepend JavaScript files (like jQuery) directly to your CoffeeScript files. Do it with a drag-and-drop in the app, or an in-file statement. Either way, CodeKit combines it all into one minified JavaScript file.
Secondly, CoffeeLint is built-in now, so you can syntax-check your CoffeeScript files before they ever compile. This is also handy for enforcing particular styles, like how many spaces a line should be indented.
What's Next?
The short answer is, 'Whatever Chris Coyier asks for.' The long answer is that I completely overhauled CodeKit's architecture so that adding new features no longer requires major surgery. I plan to move quickly and keep iterating. Jekyll support is at the top of my list. Scaffolding and templates are up there too. HTML minifiers. If-else and loops in the Kit language. As Tim Cook would say, 'We have some exciting products in the pipeline.'
Codekit 2 9 – Build Websites Faster And Better Home
Get In Touch!
Codekit 2 9 – Build Websites Faster And Better Business
I love hearing from people in the industry, even if they don't use CodeKit. (Grunt FTW!) Come have a look at our new website. I can't take credit; Guy Meyer designed and built it, but we'd really like to hear what you think, one professional to another. You can find me on Twitter: @bdkjones
On CodeKit 2.0 is a post from CSS-Tricks