PHỞ: Automated workflow for front-end

[smoyer]

I realized I was old when I tried to clean my screen, then realized "PHO" had accented characters ... I complain about the uppercase-only EBCDIC main-frame output at work, but I'm still not used to seeing non-ASCII characters on the web.

My elderly status was confirmed when the Getting Started guide included:

    2. Generate initial project structure
    
    yo pho

[userbinator]

Same here. Then again, the majority of projects by English-speaking developers tend to have ASCII names, even those for whom English is not their first language.

[pinaceae]

wanna be the asshole nerd that ruins every conversation?

constantly remind people that it's pronounced "fuh", like the German "fa" as in "fahren".

met a lady like that last year, has been stuck in mind since then. grrrr.

[subir]

Glad to know that I am not the only one who did that :P

[mbrzuzy]

I'm a little confused as to what this is exactly.

[Cthulhu_]

Looks like a Yeoman generator that sets up a Gulp config file. And a marketing thing for Source.

[pavelgavlik]

(Phở author here)

As a front-end developer you have to do lots of things that can be automated (minifying JS, compiling LESS, optimizing images, making sprites).

Gulp is great for this, but it still has a steep learning curve. Some basic setup is easy, but it took us quite a long time until it was reusable and solved all common tasks.

[psychometry]

Just google "Phở" and I'm sure you'll find plenty of relevant sites containing documentation, code samples, and more. Oh wait...you'll actually get a bunch of sites about soup.

[psychometry]

Great! Another un-google-able and practically un-type-able piece of technology.

[pyre]

> practically un-type-able

Says you. Maybe if you lived elsewhere, you might have a different point of view (SE Asia, perhaps...). ;)

[duongkai]

I'm very surprise that it's a Vietnamese name but the github source belongs Czech guy.

[pavelgavlik]

I like vietnamese cuisine :-)

[ppadron]

It turns out there are quite a few Vietnamese immigrants in Czech Republic. [1]

When I visited Prague I stayed in a hostel near a restaurant called Vegan City [2], in Žižkov. Cheap and amazing Vietnamese vegan food.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_people_in_the_Czech_...

[2] http://www.vegancity.cz/

[thienlh]

Me too! ^^

[potench]

Nice work releasing your FE environment setup; couple of questions: "The most used preprocessor with a kick-ass mixin library" Is this true? I haven't looked for actual numbers, but most FE devs I talk to use sass. We use node-sass + autoprefixer and it compiles orders of magnitude faster than compass+sass and means you don't have a dependency on ruby (or php like Less). Also, gulp is much faster than grunt which is especially noticeable on large projects.

[pavelgavlik]

> "The most used preprocessor with a kick-ass mixin library" Is this true?

Well, if I look at GitHub stars (not the best metric, but still), then less.js has about 3x more stars than sass.

> I haven't looked for actual numbers, but most FE devs I talk to use sass. We use node-sass + autoprefixer and it compiles orders of magnitude faster than compass+sass and means you don't have a dependency on ruby (or php like Less).

I like node-sass as well. It would be great to have something similar and popular enough for LESS. Official Javascript-based compiler isn't sometimes fast enough.

> Also, gulp is much faster than grunt which is especially noticeable on large projects.

Yes, Gulp is great in many ways and Phở uses it as a task runner.

[lignuist]

I wonder how many potential user are lost due to ungoogleability. :O)

[coffeecodecouch]

None, it appears O and ở are interchangeable to Google.

[sangel10]

How is this different from Lineman.js?