I think I first used CodeKit 2 on a recommendation from a friend and colleague. Released in beta in 2011, CodeKit is a Mac-only app that provides a GUI for doing all the compiling and pre-processing you’d otherwise do on the command line. And that’s mainly why I currently use two specific tools: CodeKit and Laravel Mix. I’ve been in this game long enough to know where and what I want to devote my time and energy to. Not because I can’t learn them – or other programming languages for that matter – but because I just don’t want to. I consider myself more of a full-stack designer than anything, but I also call myself a front-end developer, which I realize can mean a boatload of different things depending on who you ask.Īll this to say that I prefer simpler code tools. When it comes to coding, I’m self-taught. After all, I don’t have a computer science degree my background, schooling, and first love is design. I never fully enjoyed Gulp as I always felt a bit out of my depth, but I did find it much easier to grok than Grunt for some reason. There are several of these tools around such as Gulp.js, which is what I used for a few years. Now, I may be getting the nomenclature wrong on these tools, but the idea behind each of them is to automate parts of the web development workflow. Think converting SASS into CSS, for example. One big change has been the introduction and adoption of compilers, preprocessors, and task runners – tools for converting source code to distribution or production code. □ These days… well, let’s just say there are a lot of different ways to build a website. You could say web development/coding has changed a lot over that time span. Sites were built on your computer and then you’d FTP everything to the production site. I barely touched JavaScript and jQuery didn’t come along until 2006.
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