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Dream of Browser Test Automation?
Browser testing has been a pain for a decade now. The landscape is showing a lot of promise nowadays, and I wanted to share the approach to client-side testing …
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Measure, Optimize, Automate
We’ve already covered the different techniques you could use to vastly improve the performance of your front-end applications, their page load time, and the …
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A BrowserSync Primer
BrowserSync is a browser testing tool, similar to LiveReload. It also synchronizes across browsers and is going to provide HTML injection in the very near future, …
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My First Gulp Adventure
I decided to take a gulp of Gulp and use it in one of my latest projects, to help me with releases. I wrote a Gulpfile, which lets me write some code to define the tasks …
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Gulp, Grunt, Whatever
Gulp is a recently spawned streaming build system which shows a lot of promise. It brings a really terse code-base to the table, which you can actually walk through in …
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Get Between the Covers of Build First
A couple of weeks ago, my book on JavaScript Application Design and front-end processes (which I began writing a few months ago) finally went into the first review …
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Spritesheets, Grunt, and You
If you are using Grunt, you really have no excuse not to be using CSS spritesheets. If you aren’t using Grunt yet, then you should know that a well thought-out …
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Continuous Development in Node.js
With Grunt, the JavaScript task runner, it’s becoming increasingly easy to tackle continuous development. The goal is being able to work uninterruptedly in our …
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Upgraded Asset Management
Recently, I’ve updated the documentation for assetify, and grunt-assetify. I wanted to share the usage patterns as well as my reasons for developing, and …
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Understanding Build Processes
A task runner helps you automate everything you need to get an environment functional. Configure, build, run tests, and execute your web server. But there’s more …
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Managing Code Quality in NodeJS
I’ve mentioned CI and static asset management in the past. Now I want to talk about code quality.
This article is mostly a follow up on the CI post. I’ll …
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Continuous Integration, and Automated Deployments
In the next post I’ll get back to the meat of how I’m making progress with the blog application. This time however, I wanted to deviate a little, and talk …
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