Front End Tooling 2015
by Collin Messer
1. Languages
1.1. HTML (currently HTML5)
1.2. CSS (currently CSS3)
1.3. Javascript (currently ES6)
2. Preprocessors
2.1. HTML
2.1.1. HAML
2.1.2. Jade
2.1.3. Markdown
2.1.4. Slim
2.2. CSS
2.2.1. Sass
2.2.2. LESS
2.2.3. Stylus
2.3. Javascript
2.3.1. CoffeeScript
2.3.2. LiveScript
3. Code Editors
3.1. Notepad++
3.2. Textwrangler
3.3. Atom
3.4. Sublime Text
3.5. Visual Studio
4. Task Runners
4.1. Gulp
4.2. Grunt
4.3. NPM
4.4. Broccoli
5. Javascript Libraries and Frameworks
5.1. JQuery
5.2. Underscore
5.3. Backbone
5.4. React
5.5. AngularJS
5.6. Ember
5.7. Polymer
5.8. Knockout
6. Front End (HTML/CSS/Javascript) Frameworks
6.1. Bootstrap
6.2. Foundation
6.3. HTML5 Boilerplate
7. Resources
7.1. http://ashleynolan.co.uk/blog/frontend-tooling-survey-2015-results
7.2. www.google.com :)
8. Application Structure
8.1. Scaffolding Tools
8.1.1. Yeoman
8.1.2. Brunch
8.1.3. Loom
8.2. Managing Dependencies
8.2.1. Bower
8.2.2. WebPack
8.2.3. Browserify
8.2.4. NPM
9. Building The Application (code, test, build, deploy)
9.1. Full Build System
9.1.1. Grunt
9.1.2. Gulp
9.1.3. Broccoli