In this 3 part series I talk about WordPress Front End Developer tools. In particular some Front End Developer tools like Theme Frameworks and CSS Frameworks along with some general programmer tools like version control and code editors. This presentation does not intend to teach you how to use a particular tool but rather gives you an overview of the problem it may solve and illustrate that there is an existing solution. The idea is to send you on a journey to explore tools you may not know about. This presentation is primarily targets at beginning WordPress Developer, but also serves medium WPDev’s.
Links to all resources mentioned:
TextEditors/IDE
http://www.sublimetext.com/
http://www.vim.org/
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/
http://komodoide.com/
http://macromates.com/
https://panic.com/coda/
Localhost
http://www.mamp.info/
http://serverpress.com/products/desktopserver/
http://www.wampserver.com/en/
https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html
Version Control
http://git-scm.com/
http://subversion.apache.org/
Theme Framework
http://my.studiopress.com/themes/genesis/
http://underscores.me/
http://roots.io/
https://github.com/viewportindustries/starkers
http://themble.com/bones/
Addition Jul 1 2014 via @Pioneer_Skies: https://github.com/welaika/wordless
CSS Framework
http://getbootstrap.com/
http://foundation.zurb.com/
CSS Preprocessor
http://sass-lang.com/
http://lesscss.org/
Task Automator
http://gruntjs.com/
http://jmperezperez.com/gulp-js/
You can find an introduction to Grunt over at https://schurpf.com/5-steps-running-first-grunt-task-beginner-grunt-tutorial/
WordPress Deploy
https://www.npmjs.org/package/grunt-wordpress-deploy
http://capistranorb.com/
https://github.com/welaika/wordmove
https://github.com/git-ftp/git-ftp
http://ithemes.com/purchase/backupbuddy/
A more detailed discussion of available tools on WordPress Deployment can be found at https://schurpf.com/wordpress-deploy/.
Do you use a tool I didn’t mention, or do you disagree with what I say? I would love for you to share in the comments below.