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dclowd9901 · on Feb 13, 2016

Add Webpack (https://webpack.github.io/) to this list

Also Jest, Jasmine, Mocha, Selenium. I mean, unit and integration testing were entirely stripped from the list in the link.

Nexus for local NPM repo (if you don't want to publish publicly, or pay a ton to make it private).

And you should probably learn a bit of Maven if you're on a Java stack so you can figure out how shit actually comes together on the page.

The joys of front end.

kensign · on Feb 13, 2016

Well Karma uses Jasmine and Protractor uses Selenium. Protractor can be used beyond Angular too. Good point about about Nexus, I forgot about any code repos altogether, Bitbucket is private, free and awesome. I am seeing more use of JSPM too.

Honorable mention for sophisticated animations: http://greensock.com/

And then there's the missing mentions about the plethora of mobile app bootstraps such as phonegap.

As complex as the frontend has become, C++ development requires a much more sophisticated set of skills and use of frameworks IMO. I do like that frontend work can require some decent engineering chops now, although it shrinks the talent pool considerably, for the present time at least. I personally look forward to the day jQuery DIAF now that much of the DOM API is standardized. Although it is extremely useful, it's a tight coupling that I'd rather do without.