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THIS IS DEPREICATED CONTENT

This content has evolved into a book called "Front-end Handbook": https://www.gitbook.com/book/frontendmasters/front-end-handbook/details


#Landscaping With Frontend Development Tools

An opinionated list of tools for frontend (i.e. html, js, css) desktop/laptop (i.e. does not include tablet or phone yet) web development

##Coding Tools

######Workflow/Builds/Assemblers/Task-runners/Dev Opts


######Browser Package Managers (checkout: Front-End Package Manager Comparison)


######CSS Base/Boilerplate


######CSS Frameworks (Comparison or Front-end CSS frameworks)


######HTML Base/Boilerplate


######Frontend HTML/CSS/JS Base/Boilerplate


######DOM Scripting (FYI dojo, yui, ext, qooxdoo all have DOM tools)


######JS Helpers


######Keyboard Helpers


######Event (mouse/touch/pointer) Helpers


######CSS Helpers


######Module/Script Dependency Loaders (Javascript Loaders Comparison)


######Templates (template chooser)


######UI Widgets (comparison)


######Testing Frameworks


######Browser Testing & Browser Automated Testing & Browser Screen Captures


######Tests Runners


######Test spies, stubs and mocks


######Code Coverage


######Code Complexity & Reports


######Assertion Libraries


######JS Performance Testing


######JS Auto Documentation Tools


######CSS Auto Documentation Tools (THE Style Guide GUIDE)


######JS Quality Validators


######CSS Quality Validators


######HTML Quality Validators


######JS Optimizer/Minification/Compression Tools


######CSS Optimizer/Minification/Compression Tools


######Languages Compiling to CSS

######Languages Compiling to JS (http://altjs.org/)


######Languages Compiling to HTML


######Routers


######Front End Application Structure (somewhat backend agnostic)


######Front End Application Structure (with backend opinions)


######Full Stack Application Structure/Frameworks


######Frontend JavaScript Frameworks (aka Kitchen Sink Solutions, tools below provide a mixture of the things above)

######Front End Application monitoring


##Reference/Guide/Polyfill/Generator Tools

######Browser X Supports X


######HTML Language References & Polyfills


######HTML5 & Friends Specs/Ref & Polyfills


######DOM Specs/Ref & Polyfills


######CSS Specs/Ref & Polyfills


######CSS Generators


######CSS Style/Conventions Guides


######JavaScript ES5 Specs/Ref & Polyfills


######JavaScript ES6 Specs/Ref & Polyfills


######JavaScript Style/Conventions Guides


######General Front-end Practices/Conventions

##Performance

######Tools

######Rules/Practices

##Online REPL's/editors/IDE's

######JS REPL

######JS focused editors

######Regular Expression editors

######HTML/CSS editors

######HTML/CSS/JS editors

######Execute/Test live code

######Browser IDE's

######JSON editors

##Browser Security

##Browser Hacks

##API first, CMS Service

##Backend services for front-end developers

##API tools

##API Mocking

##Image Mocking

##JSON Query Tools

##JSON Validation Tools

##Front-end DB's

##Catalog/Collection of JavaScript Libs and Tools

##Static Site Generators