A tooling extravaganza! (JS Party #27)

Kevin Ball, Alex Sexton, Nick Nisi, and Christopher Hiller talk all things tooling. Build tooling, linting, formatting, IDEs, and a small tangent on Vim.

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Featuring:

• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X
• Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Babel · The compiler for writing next generation JavaScript
• babel online compiler - test babel online!
• webpack - website
• GitHub for webpack - GitHub for webpack
• gulp.js
• Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner- website
• GitHub for Grunt -GitHub for Grunt
• Broccoli.js - The asset pipeline for ambitious applications - website
• ESLint - Pluggable JavaScript linter
• Atom - official website
• GitHub for Atom - Atom on GitHub
• Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined - website
• Home - Neovim - website
• GitHub for Neovim - Neovim on GitHub

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!