2016-12-25 19:17 GMT+01:00 Stéphane Blondon <stephane.blon...@gmail.com>:
> Le 24/12/2016 à 00:51, Russell Stuart a écrit :
>> [0] I was proudly shown some production "web code" yesterday. Cutting
>> edge stuff, apparently. A single file contained HTML, css, and JS.
>> [...]
>>
>> But how could a linter process that, I asked - it was some unholy
>> mess of 3(? maybe more) intermixed languages. It gently explained
>> this was the source code form.
>
>
> As far as I know about frontend web development, HTML, CSS and
> Javascript are kept separated in the source code and some compiled
> version merge stuff together. It's more efficient to have few big files
> instead of a lot of small files to download.
>
> I know this workflow today for frontend:
> - Sass or less files are compiled/minified into a CSS file.
> - Coffeescript, react templates, etc. are compiled/minified into
> javascript files.
>
> The job is done with {grunt|gulp|webpack|brunch|whatever}.
>
> So, the final compiled file can be a mix of several languages but the
> languages are separated in the sources.
>
> Sometimes yaml is transformed into HTML too; I saw that on the server side.
>
> Perhaps I missed something, so I'm curious to learn more about it (a
> link or some keywords can be a good start).
>
>
>> Pirate has evidently decided to work full time on
>> bringing these two worlds together.
>
> Thanks to Pirate Praveen (and others) for working on node packages. I
> think it's good we have a recent version of nodejs and nvm in Debian.
About that: i'd need some help running all test suites of packages depending
on nodejs against nodejs 6.9.2 from experimental.
I'd like to start a transition asap to nodejs 6.
Jérémy.
