Welcome to part four of the front end development course!

You have learned to build a webpage with HTML and CSS, and to make it interactive with Javascript. You have all the tools you need to make a fully functional website - and that’s awesome! But you might be asking - where do I go from here? In this course we are going to cover some tools that will take your front end web development skills to a professional level. We will focus on a build tool called Webpack and let it take us on a tour through all the most common technologies and strategies you’ll see in a professional front end project.

This course is really about a mental shift. Up to this point we have built toy apps for the purpose of learning that typically only have one user - us. But how does our development need to change in order to build, say, a large company website with a whole team of devs? We’re going to explore that and a whole lot more in the coming modules.

QUESTION:

Getting a baseline

Have you ever used build tools in a project?

QUESTION:

Getting a baseline

As you start this course, what is your current understanding of build tools (if any)? What are they? What are they for/what do they do?

QUESTION:

Getting a baseline

As you start this course, what is your current understanding of Webpack (if any)? Feel free to throw out even bits and pieces if you can't think of a full description. Things like where is Webpack used, what it does, other technologies that use it, etc..

QUESTION:

Interview Question

Tell me about one tool you have used that improved your frontend workflow and why. This could be anything from a text editor plugin, linter, time tracker, etc… whatever you like.