Archive for January 2015

• Backend, Meet Frontend: Managing Assets with Bower

  ~ by Jonathan Martin

  TL;DR: Don’t manage vendor assets with Rails gems, use Bower and NPM. Checkout the gist for quick reference.

  So you’ve knocked out a few epics in Pivotal Tracker and have an MVP ready for Heroku, when your project manager announces that the Bootstrap-based frontend and choice of colors will likely turn off investors.

  To mitigate your “button-and-text soup,” he decides to hire a graphic designer and frontend developer to clobber your beautifully simple Rails app with masses of minified JavaScript, Convoluted Style Sheets, and litter your slim templates with classes and data attributes.

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