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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.




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.




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