NPM Scripts for Build Tooling

by Andrew Burgess1 Dec 2015

Lessons:2Length:12 minutes

DevOps NPM Node.js Build Tools Workflow Unit Testing Command Prompt Node

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Introduction

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When developing and deploying a web application, we need to run a number of build steps. CSS needs to be minified, Sass and ES6 need to be transpiled, and unit tests need to be run. To sequence all of these tasks, we turn to build automation tools: Grunt and Gulp are two of the most popular in the JavaScript community. However, NPM scripts are an even simpler way to perform build automation.

In this Coffee Break Course, designed to teach a new skill or concept in a single sitting, Envato Tuts+ instructor Andrew Burgess will show you how to automate web development workflow tasks, using only your package.json file.

1.NPM Scripts for Build Tooling
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Introduction
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NPM Scripts for Build Tooling
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Andrew 400

Hi! I'm Andrew Burgess, and I'm a connoisseur of all things programming. I'm from near Toronto, Canada, and I've been fooling around with computers for nearly my whole life, both hardware and software. Right now, I'm finishing up a computer science degree. For almost a decade now, I've been playing around with over a dozen programming languages on several different platforms, from JavaScript to Java, from Ruby to Befunge. My favourite has always been JavaScript. I've always enjoyed writing, so when I discovered Tuts+ in 2009, I was excited to start writing tutorials. Since then, I've been writing tutorials and producing screencasts for Tuts+. Right now, I'm a course instructor and I produce mostly JavaScript-related courses. Maybe you've seen Building a Web App from Scratch with Angular.js or Node.js from Scratch; that's me! I've also written a few ebooks, like Getting Good with Git, Getting Good with JavaScript, and, more recently, Backbone.js Blueprints.

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