About Talk

Front end build tools can be confusing even to experienced developers. The solution is to understand how they work and work together on a conceptual level. Don’t be intimidated by the state of the art Node, NPM, Grunt, Gulp, Bower, Webpack, Browserify, Yeoman, Brunch… there are so many front-end build tools out there that it can seem impossible to keep up. All of these projects are designed to make dev life easier. To understand the what, why, and how of these tools, you just need to grasp a few concepts. In this talk, I’ll walk you through my mental model of how these tools work and what they accomplish.