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Re: A list of front end development resources

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Post by alok-g » Mon, Jun 24, 2013, 9:26 PM UTC

dypsilon wrote: post #87

ldng wrote: post #86

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That is interesting. How do you envision that for the moment ? As a "Web distribution" with it's own management system that integrate with existing backend and frontend tools ? Or more like a collection of integrated stacks ? I think a collection of integrated stack would be very interesting. Much like we have small recovery linux distribution, server distribution and desktop-oriented distribution. Like, distrib of w…

Exactly, something like that. I think nowadays we have enough little projects to choose from, so we can create a distribution with central package management and plugin architecture (based on npm?) and a list of curated packages + documentation/tutorials on how to tie everything together. So for example there could be bootstrap + angular + express.js on node + mongodb + debian. Building + testing + deployment infrast…

Do please let me know if you build this or find something existing like this. As a non-web developer, I am interested in something that lets me supply only the things I need to supply for my specific application/website even if that involves writing some code for the business logic.

Re: A list of front end development resources

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Post by andrewflnr » Tue, Jun 25, 2013, 12:29 AM UTC

da_n wrote: post #90

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JavaScript and CSS stink in a lot of ways. CSS is pretty messy if you want to do something slightly weird or complicated, which is a large part of why we have frameworks for grids instead of just being able to write one. It seems you have to do this weird "margin: 0 auto" trick to center things sometimes. Last I heard, the only way to get something vertically centered is to make it a table cell and use "vertical-alig…

I always feel like browser inconsistencies are a bit like print, every print shop seems to have different requirements about colours, gutter, trim, quiet areas etc so even in the real world consistency is not guaranteed. I find if you use something like SASS with Compass/Bourbon you don't need to think about vendor prefixes.

You're making my point for me about CSS: it's symptomatic that we need something like SASS to get over browser inconsistency.

Re: A list of front end development resources

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Post by da_n » Tue, Jun 25, 2013, 12:33 AM UTC

andrewflnr wrote: post #92

da_n wrote: post #90

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I always feel like browser inconsistencies are a bit like print, every print shop seems to have different requirements about colours, gutter, trim, quiet areas etc so even in the real world consistency is not guaranteed. I find if you use something like SASS with Compass/Bourbon you don't need to think about vendor prefixes.

You're making my point for me about CSS: it's symptomatic that we need something like SASS to get over browser inconsistency.

Indeed, I wasn't disagreeing, just demonstrating ways around the problem.