Painless Builds With Elixir

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  Episode 1 ● Run Time 4:13

  Initial Setup Free

  Before we can toy around with Elixir, we first need to install the required tools.

• 02

  Episode 2 ● Run Time 9:05

  Sass and Less Compilation

  It's never been easy to write and compile Sass (or Less, if you prefer) in a project. Let's go over the details.

• 03

  Episode 3 ● Run Time 9:05

  CoffeeScript and ES6 Support

  When it comes to JavaScript, Elixir provides lots of options! Enjoy using CoffeeScript? No problemo. What about using the latest features that EcmaScript 6 and 7 have to offer? Easy! One line of code will do it.

• 04

  Episode 4 ● Run Time 5:16

  Sourcemaps

  Elixir offers sourcemap support out of the box. This means, when debugging in the browser, rather than reviewing some foreign compiled script or stylesheet, you can instead dig directly into the original Sass partial, or JavaScript module. How cool is that!?

• 05

  Episode 5 ● Run Time 1:08

  Gulp Watch

  Manually running gulp can get tedious really fast. Instead, opt for the useful gulp watch command to keep an eye on your files for changes.

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  Episode 6 ● Run Time 3:25

  Concatenation

  Easily, one of the most frequent tasks that you'll need to perform, as part of your build process, is file concatenation. Whether you need to merge some scripts or stylesheets, Elixir makes it a cinch!

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  Episode 7 ● Run Time 2:32

  Gulp TDD

  If you'd like to trigger your PHPUnit or PHPSpec tests with Gulp, then the gulp tdd Terminal command will be your best friend!

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  Episode 8 ● Run Time 5:22

  File Versioning

  Aggressive caching on your production server is a useful technique to improve the performance of your app. But what about when we want to bust that cache? Do we really have to manually update a querystring on a file path? Nope! There's an easier way.

• 09

  Episode 9 ● Run Time 4:20

  Browserify Compilation

  With a vanilla Gulpfile, hooking into Browserify can be a bit of a pain. It takes lots and lots of research to figure out how to apply the necessary transformations and such. With Elixir, it's as simple as a single method call!

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  Episode 10 ● Run Time 3:29

  Everybody Together Now

  Let's use all the techniques we've learned to build a Gulpfile for a simple, yet typical web application.

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  Episode 11 ● Run Time 7:03

  Custom Elixir Extensions

  What about the situations, where you need to call a custom Gulp task of yours? Or what if you even want to extend Elixir, itself? I'll show you how in this lesson.

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  Episode 12 ● Run Time 5:06

  Configuring Elixir

  Whenever possible, stick with the Elixir conventions. However, sometimes, you have no choice. Maybe you require a different public folder name. Or maybe all of your assets should instead be stored in the "app/assets" directory. In this lesson, you'll learn to override the default configuration.

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  Episode 13 ● Run Time 5:21

  Browsersync in Action Free

  Laravel Elixir 3.3 includes Browsersync support straight out of the box. This means, with minimal effort, you can modify a view or piece of styling, and instantly watch your browser update to reflect the changes!
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  Episode 14 ● Run Time 3:19

  Painless Responsive Workflow

  We reviewed Browsersync in the previous episode, but I want to impress upon you how useful this tool can be, when optimizing your sites for various devices. Wouldn't it be nice if you could, in real-time, review a page's layout for desktops, tablets, and phones? Even better, wouldn't it be cool if they were all in sync with one another?
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  Episode 15 ● Run Time 28:18

  Laravel Elixir Extension From Scratch

  In this episode, we'll, from scratch, create a custom Laravel Elixir extension that allows us to integrate Webpack into our build process.

  View the source for this lesson on GitHub.