In a fast moving industry like ours, it is imperative that we have tools that allow us to build environments (front and back-end), quickly while providing consistency. The same way we have DevOps processes for quickly spinning off a complete Drupal website built with composer, Drush, Drupal Console and more, we need a system that automates the Drupal theme creation process in an effort to provide all the essential tools needed for a modern, best practices, and standards compliant front-end environment.
The local environment we provide for this training already includes a fully functional Drupal 8 theme, which includes the following Front-End tools:
- Pattern Lab: Design system to build a living style-guide.
- NodeJS: A Javascript runtime system used by most modern apps today.
- NVM: Node Version Manager .
- NPM: Node Package Manager to manage node dependencies.
- Gulp: Task runner to automate repetitive tasks such as code compile and more.
- BreakpointsJS: Allows to generate breakpoints using media queries.