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PHỞ: Automated workflow for front-end

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Re: PHỞ: Automated workflow for front-end

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I realized I was old when I tried to clean my screen, then realized "PHO" had accented characters ... I complain about the uppercase-only EBCDIC main-frame output at work, but I'm still not used to seeing non-ASCII characters on the web. My elderly status was confirmed when the Getting Started guide included: 2. Generate initial project structure yo pho

Glad to know that I am not the only one who did that :P

Re: PHỞ: Automated workflow for front-end

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Nice work releasing your FE environment setup; couple of questions: "The most used preprocessor with a kick-ass mixin library" Is this true? I haven't looked for actual numbers, but most FE devs I talk to use sass. We use node-sass + autoprefixer and it compiles orders of magnitude faster than compass+sass and means you don't have a dependency on ruby (or php like Less). Also, gulp is much faster than grunt which is especially noticeable on large projects.

Re: PHỞ: Automated workflow for front-end

#13
post #4

I realized I was old when I tried to clean my screen, then realized "PHO" had accented characters ... I complain about the uppercase-only EBCDIC main-frame output at work, but I'm still not used to seeing non-ASCII characters on the web. My elderly status was confirmed when the Getting Started guide included: 2. Generate initial project structure yo pho

Same here. Then again, the majority of projects by English-speaking developers tend to have ASCII names, even those for whom English is not their first language.

Re: PHỞ: Automated workflow for front-end

#14
post #12

Nice work releasing your FE environment setup; couple of questions: "The most used preprocessor with a kick-ass mixin library" Is this true? I haven't looked for actual numbers, but most FE devs I talk to use sass. We use node-sass + autoprefixer and it compiles orders of magnitude faster than compass+sass and means you don't have a dependency on ruby (or php like Less). Also, gulp is much faster than grunt which is…

> "The most used preprocessor with a kick-ass mixin library" Is this true?

Well, if I look at GitHub stars (not the best metric, but still), then less.js has about 3x more stars than sass.

> I haven't looked for actual numbers, but most FE devs I talk to use sass. We use node-sass + autoprefixer and it compiles orders of magnitude faster than compass+sass and means you don't have a dependency on ruby (or php like Less).

I like node-sass as well. It would be great to have something similar and popular enough for LESS. Official Javascript-based compiler isn't sometimes fast enough.

> Also, gulp is much faster than grunt which is especially noticeable on large projects.

Yes, Gulp is great in many ways and Phở uses it as a task runner.

Re: PHỞ: Automated workflow for front-end

#15
post #6

I'm very surprise that it's a Vietnamese name but the github source belongs Czech guy.

It turns out there are quite a few Vietnamese immigrants in Czech Republic. [1]

When I visited Prague I stayed in a hostel near a restaurant called Vegan City [2], in Žižkov. Cheap and amazing Vietnamese vegan food.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_people_in_the_Czech_...

[2] http://www.vegancity.cz/

Re: PHỞ: Automated workflow for front-end

#18

I wonder how many potential user are lost due to ungoogleability. :O)

None, it appears O and ở are interchangeable to Google.

I'm not sure if interchangeable is the right word. 'phởne' and 'phone' yield different result lists.

At least Google seems to have a way to detect visually similar letters.

Re: PHỞ: Automated workflow for front-end

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post #2

I'm a little confused as to what this is exactly.

(Phở author here) As a front-end developer you have to do lots of things that can be automated (minifying JS, compiling LESS, optimizing images, making sprites). Gulp is great for this, but it still has a steep learning curve. Some basic setup is easy, but it took us quite a long time until it was reusable and solved all common tasks.

So pho is a gulp replacement?

Re: PHỞ: Automated workflow for front-end

#20
post #4

I realized I was old when I tried to clean my screen, then realized "PHO" had accented characters ... I complain about the uppercase-only EBCDIC main-frame output at work, but I'm still not used to seeing non-ASCII characters on the web. My elderly status was confirmed when the Getting Started guide included: 2. Generate initial project structure yo pho

wanna be the asshole nerd that ruins every conversation?

constantly remind people that it's pronounced "fuh", like the German "fa" as in "fahren".

met a lady like that last year, has been stuck in mind since then. grrrr.

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