Advice for experienced dev taking on front-end role?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/Frontend

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  • vite

    Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

  • Tooling takes away alot of headaches and saves yourself from "being clever" (stupid). Most front-end tooling can be run out of the nodeJS runtime, so even if your stack isn't JS oriented, it's still worth running node. The obvious shoutouts: Vite, eslint, stylelint, postCSS, browserslist. Playwright is somethin else you can give a look at if your scope of work is large enough.

  • stylelint

    A mighty CSS linter that helps you avoid errors and enforce conventions.

  • Tooling takes away alot of headaches and saves yourself from "being clever" (stupid). Most front-end tooling can be run out of the nodeJS runtime, so even if your stack isn't JS oriented, it's still worth running node. The obvious shoutouts: Vite, eslint, stylelint, postCSS, browserslist. Playwright is somethin else you can give a look at if your scope of work is large enough.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • PostCSS

    Transforming styles with JS plugins

  • Tooling takes away alot of headaches and saves yourself from "being clever" (stupid). Most front-end tooling can be run out of the nodeJS runtime, so even if your stack isn't JS oriented, it's still worth running node. The obvious shoutouts: Vite, eslint, stylelint, postCSS, browserslist. Playwright is somethin else you can give a look at if your scope of work is large enough.

  • Playwright

    Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

  • Tooling takes away alot of headaches and saves yourself from "being clever" (stupid). Most front-end tooling can be run out of the nodeJS runtime, so even if your stack isn't JS oriented, it's still worth running node. The obvious shoutouts: Vite, eslint, stylelint, postCSS, browserslist. Playwright is somethin else you can give a look at if your scope of work is large enough.

  • ESLint

    Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code.

  • Tooling takes away alot of headaches and saves yourself from "being clever" (stupid). Most front-end tooling can be run out of the nodeJS runtime, so even if your stack isn't JS oriented, it's still worth running node. The obvious shoutouts: Vite, eslint, stylelint, postCSS, browserslist. Playwright is somethin else you can give a look at if your scope of work is large enough.

  • browserslist

    🦔 Share target browsers between different front-end tools, like Autoprefixer, Stylelint and babel-preset-env

  • Tooling takes away alot of headaches and saves yourself from "being clever" (stupid). Most front-end tooling can be run out of the nodeJS runtime, so even if your stack isn't JS oriented, it's still worth running node. The obvious shoutouts: Vite, eslint, stylelint, postCSS, browserslist. Playwright is somethin else you can give a look at if your scope of work is large enough.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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