True beauty is on the inside, but users are shallow

Loek Van Gent @loek1pc work for 1% club - platform for small projects that have a social impoact slides - http://slideshare.net/LoekvanGent/shallow

• Idea - let’s make multi-tenant site, and white-label site
• BIG refactor
• history - simple, static

how do we write better front end code?

• project true_beauty, apps heart, spirit
• two scoops - group your front-end - put template and static in overall project directory - then front end guys don’t have to search across whole project

front end tools

• js requirements - bower
• structured CSS - Sass, less ...
• build front end (convert sass to css, minify) - grunt
• install grunt etc - npm
• starting to look like an entire project within the project
• django to provide data, django rest framework to provide REST API
• js framework - angular, backbone, ember, react ...
• ember cli for front end

ember new good_looks
cd good_looks
ember app route something ...

ember serve --proxy http://localhost:8000

Sum up

• love your front end - it’s the only thing the users see
• group your front end - get all that JS etc in one place
• use tools to help structure the front end code
• start using Ember - it’s the future (or angular, react ... but not backbone)