For playing with js/css(processors)/webpack things. I never quite understood the facination in the js community with build tools that don't quite replace npm. It just seems like an unwelcome source of extra clocs in the toolchain.
I was also somewhat pleasantly surprised at the simplicity of the setup for the angular2 (beta) tutorial[a] -- even if it manages to pull down a 100mb of dev dependencies (dist dependencies are much more sane). And even if the particular tutorial stops (or did a few weeks ago) before it actually shows how to interact with any kind of external storage/db/api...
http://blog.keithcirkel.co.uk/how-to-use-npm-as-a-build-tool...
And the still active, linked, github repo:
https://github.com/keithamus/npm-scripts-example
For playing with js/css(processors)/webpack things. I never quite understood the facination in the js community with build tools that don't quite replace npm. It just seems like an unwelcome source of extra clocs in the toolchain.
I was also somewhat pleasantly surprised at the simplicity of the setup for the angular2 (beta) tutorial[a] -- even if it manages to pull down a 100mb of dev dependencies (dist dependencies are much more sane). And even if the particular tutorial stops (or did a few weeks ago) before it actually shows how to interact with any kind of external storage/db/api...
[a] https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/quickstart.html
[ed: actually meant quickstart+:
https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/tutorial/ ]