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10 Useful JavaScript Template Engines for Developers

The idea of using templates is to make life simpler without written all of the code, but the essential part of the code is to make changes. Like other different languages which support inheritance of the template, JavaScript also supports the usage of template engines. It enables to create a code base where you can build the application of your choice. Hence, there is a list which contains 10…

Yesterday we had a guest speaker, Brittany Storoz, visit us at Flatiron. She's an interactive developer at the New York Times and spoke to us about techniques in streamlining your JavaScript workflow. 

She recommended incorporating all these resources into the workflow to ensure your codebase stays clean:

JS Beautifier - cleans up your indentation and spacing, making your code completely uniform and beautiful

JS Hint or JS Lint - both of these error check your JS code for typos or potential problems, but JS Lint is more strict than JS Hint

Testing with Mocha - it's a testing framework similar to Jasmine, but it looks way more sleek and minimal, which I appreciate

While incorporating all these steps into your workflow might be a little cumbersome, the great thing is there's a handy tool that AUTOMATES all of these -- Grunt.