#build tools

Vite (French for “fast”) is a next-generation frontend build tool created by Evan You, the creator of Vue.js. After using it for several projects, I can confirm it lives up to its name. Development server starts in milliseconds, hot module replacement is instantaneous, and the overall developer experience is transformative. Why Vite is Fast Traditional bundlers (webpack, Rollup) bundle your…

Learn how to automate tasks with Node.js and Gulp. This guide covers setting up Gulp, creating tasks for compiling, minifying, and optimizing your code, and best practices.

Introduction Automation is essential for improving efficiency and consistency in web development workflows. Gulp, a powerful task runner built on Node.js, allows developers to automate common tasks such as minification, compilation, unit testing, linting, and more. This guide will walk you through setting up Gulp in a Node.js project and demonstrate how to automate several common tasks to…

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What's New in ASP.NET 5

Envato Tuts+ Courses

Video courses taught by expert instructors.

Learn new skills from start to finish.

Downloadable Source Files also available on GitHub.

Course Description

ASP.NET is almost 15 years old and it has evolved to become a flexible and extremely powerful platform. But 15 years is a long time, especially in the world of web technology. Web development has drastically changed over the last 15 years and the folks at Microsoft knew it was time to change ASP.NET.

In this course, Envato Tuts+ instructor Jeremy McPeak will walk you through the major changes to ASP.NET in version 5. Along the way, you’ll see how these changes will affect your project and how the new features can make your life as a developer easier. You’ll also get a first look at the new Tag Helpers, inversion of control and dependency injection features, with practical examples.

What You’ll Learn

How the ASP.NET architecture has been redesigned in version 5.

The anatomy of a DNX project.

What’s new in MVC 6.

How to use the new ‘Tag Helpers’ feature.

ASP.NET’s new Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection capabilities.

About the Instructor

Jeremy McPeak started his development career on the client side, writing JavaScript and DHTML components in his spare time. He has co-written several books, such as Professional Ajax 1st Edition, Professional Ajax 2nd Edition, and Beginning JavaScript 3rd and 4th editions. You can check out his website.

New Post has been published on https://click.atak.co/whats-new-in-asp-net-5/

What's New in ASP.NET 5

Envato Tuts+ Courses

Video courses taught by expert instructors.

Learn new skills from start to finish.

Downloadable Source Files also available on GitHub.

Course Description

ASP.NET is almost 15 years old and it has evolved to become a flexible and extremely powerful platform. But 15 years is a long time, especially in the world of web technology. Web development has drastically changed over the last 15 years and the folks at Microsoft knew it was time to change ASP.NET.

In this course, Envato Tuts+ instructor Jeremy McPeak will walk you through the major changes to ASP.NET in version 5. Along the way, you’ll see how these changes will affect your project and how the new features can make your life as a developer easier. You’ll also get a first look at the new Tag Helpers, inversion of control and dependency injection features, with practical examples.

What You’ll Learn

How the ASP.NET architecture has been redesigned in version 5.

The anatomy of a DNX project.

What’s new in MVC 6.

How to use the new ‘Tag Helpers’ feature.

ASP.NET’s new Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection capabilities.

About the Instructor

Jeremy McPeak started his development career on the client side, writing JavaScript and DHTML components in his spare time. He has co-written several books, such as Professional Ajax 1st Edition, Professional Ajax 2nd Edition, and Beginning JavaScript 3rd and 4th editions. You can check out his website.

Webpack is a build tool that puts all of your assets, including Javascript, images, fonts, and CSS, in a dependency graph. Webpack lets you use require() in your source code to point to local files, like images, and decide how they're processed in your final Javascript bundle, like replacing the path with a URL pointing to a CDN.

Should I Use Webpack?

If you're building a complex Front End™ application with many non-code static assets such as CSS, images, fonts, etc, then yes, Webpack will give you great benefits.

If your application is fairly small, and you don't have many static assets and you only need to build one Javascript file to serve to the client, then Webpack might be more overhead than you need.