PHỞ: Automated workflow for front-end

http://pho.madebysource.com

by joeblau • 12 years ago

34 28 12 years ago

pho.madebysource.com

mbrzuzy• 12 years ago

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

Cthulhu_• 12 years ago

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

pavelgavlik4• 12 years ago

(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.

coherentpony2• 12 years ago

So pho is a gulp replacement?

psychometry4• 12 years ago

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.

smoyer• 12 years ago

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

subir• 12 years ago

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

userbinator• 12 years ago

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• 12 years ago

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.

pyre4• 12 years ago

Pronouncing it correctly makes restaurant names like "Pho King" even funner. :P

duongkai• 12 years ago

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

pavelgavlik4• 12 years ago

I like vietnamese cuisine :-)

thienlh• 12 years ago

Me too! ^^

ppadron• 12 years ago

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/

sangel10• 12 years ago

How is this different from Lineman.js?

potench• 12 years ago

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.

pavelgavlik4• 12 years ago

"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.

lignuist2• 12 years ago

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

coffeecodecouch• 12 years ago

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

lignuist2• 12 years ago

I'm not sure if interchangeable is the right word. 'phởne' and 'phone' yield different result lists.

At least Google seems to have a way to detect visually similar letters.

psychometry4• 12 years ago

It's still un-google-able since it's an extremely common word (more than 2M results).

psychometry4• 12 years ago

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

pyre4• 12 years ago

practically un-type-able

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

psychometry4• 12 years ago

Fair enough, but I know how to type most of the common diacritics on my Mac keyboard, which is probably more than most people could say. I'm not sure how it's even possible to type the "o" in that word without an alternate keyboard layout, though.

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