easyfront

easyfront

Universal tool for modern and fucking simple frontend development flow.

What to make web development DAMN simple? Meet with easyfront!

Usage:

# install globally for initing command
npm install easyfront -g

mkdir my-project && cd ./my-project

# create initial frontend application file structure and instal some deps
easyfront init

# start dev enviroment and local server
npm start
# now go to http://localhost:8080/src/ for your app
# or http://localhost:8080/test/ for tests


# run tests via CLI
npm test

# compile, concat and minify application
npm run build

Project structure

All your core files are placed in ./src/ directory. If you need to include some addition files (like images, fonts or styles which you don't want to import from js) into build result just place them in ./src/assets/ directory.

Support

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Roadmap

• builtin eslint configuration with bunch of useful plugins and text editors support
• flow support
• more useful babel-presets
• css preprocessors

Benefits of using easyfront?

The general idea of easyfront is to make frontend development flow very simple and AVOID any configurations.

There is part of my package.json before easyfront:

“devDependencies”: {
 “babel-core”: “^6.2.1”,
 “babel-loader”: “^6.2.0”,
 “babel-plugin-transform-object-rest-spread”: “^6.1.18”,
 “babel-preset-es2015”: “^6.1.18”,
 “babel-preset-react”: “^6.1.18”,
 “babel-preset-stage-0”: “^6.1.18”,
 “css-loader”: “^0.22.0”,
 “eslint”: “^2.1.0”,
 “raw-loader”: “^0.5.1”,
 “react-addons-perf”: “^0.14.3”,
 “style-loader”: “^0.13.0”,
 “webpack”: “^1.12.4”,
 “webpack-dev-server”: “^1.12.1”
}

After:

“devDependencies”: {
   “eslint”: “^2.1.0”,
   “easyfront”: “^0.0.6”
 }