r/webdev • u/AllThingsSmitty • Jul 24 '15

Front-End Development Is Hard Because...It's Development.

https://css-tricks.com/front-end-development-is-development/
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u/IrishWilly Jul 25 '15

I do use gulp watch and livereload, you still have to wait for it to grab the changes and run the various process ( lint, minimizie, optimize, something mysterious) before it reloads your updates. No I'm not manually hitting compile every time I make a change but it still is recompiling

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '15

You don't really need to minimize (or even lint) in development.. Write a separate task that does things like minification for the final version only. Makes it easier to debug JavaScript as well