Free Course
Web Tooling & Automation
by
Gulp, Sass, and BabelJS, Oh My!
Nanodegree Program
Introduction to Programming
Learn to Code
Advance your career by learning the basics of programming.
About this Course
In this course, you’ll learn how to setup your development, get super productive during daily work and iteration, prevent yourself and your site from disasters and save a lot of time and effort with automatic optimization and automation. Finally, you’ll learn how to do all this while being confident your code runs on a multitude of devices in the real world.
Course Cost
Free
Timeline
Approx. 3 weeks
Skill Level
intermediate
Included in Product
Rich Learning Content
Interactive Quizzes
Taught by Industry Pros
Self-Paced Learning
Student Support Community
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Web Tooling & Automation
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Course Leads
Paul Bakaus
Instructor
James Williams
Instructor
What You Will Learn
lesson 1
Introduction
- Being pragmatic vs. idealistic when choosing tools.
- Identify the real value of the tool.
- Keep things modular and replaceable.
lesson 2
Productive Editing
- Set up your editor.
- Install Sublime Text.
- Install Plugins.
lesson 3
Powerful Builds
- Getting started with Gulp.
- Install gulp plugins.
- Create gulp tasks.
lesson 4
Expressive Live Editing
- Why live edit?
- Approaches for live editing.
- Testing with Browser Sync.
lesson 5
How to Prevent Disasters
- Code correction with linting.
- ESLint.
- Unit testing in Gulp.
lesson 6
Awesome Optimizations
- CSS concatenation.
- JS concatenation and minification.
- Sourcemaps.
Prerequisites and Requirements
We expect that you have basic experience with JavaScript and a text editor, like Sublime Text or Atom.
If you need more experience with JavaScript, check out our JavaScript Basics course.
See the Technology Requirements for using Udacity.
Why Take This Course
Front-end developers need to work quickly and efficiently to be productive. Having a good set of tools and libraries is crucial. This course will introduce you to a opinionated set of tools and libraries to improve your workflow.