Duane Blake

Front end developer

Category: Front End

Using Npm instead of Gulp to compile Sass

I’m a big fan of Gulp, I’ve been using it for over two years recently I found myself using NPM scripts for my Javascript Applications. So I decided to see if it possible for me to use NPM also to compile my sass files.

node-sass-gulp

System notifcation in Gulp using Notify and Plumber

A bugbear when I first started using Gulp instead of using Compass for compiling my stylesheets. Was Gulp would just crashed and you had to restart gulp to get it back running. In this guide i’m going to show you how to prevent this along side showing a system notification for when it errors and when the code compiled.

System notifcation in Gulp using Notify and  Plumber

Youtube Gallery using VueJS

At work recently I created a youtube gallery widget using a mixture of jQuery and HandlebarJS. I decide to rebuild my Gallery widget but using VueJs framework something I’ve not used before.

Youtube Gallery using VueJS

My Firefox Addons

Firefox popularity has struggled recently due to the rise of Google Chrome, although i use both browser on daily basis. Firefox is still my personal browser of choice for when working on desktop machines. I’m going to list my add ons which I use on a daily basis.

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