[dba-Tech] FYI: PrePros - an awesome Web design and development tool...

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Jan 9 12:02:19 CST 2014


Hi Shamil:

That is a great list of frameworks. It has taken a while to get enough time to review each. The Prepros set of web tools sounds excellent and if they are platform independent and not browser centric it might be a winner though huge mashups scare me...like DNN which have so much convoluted code that any serious issues can take days to resolve...and the performance speeds can be a concern. 

There are so many great frameworks out there it is difficult to decide which is best and how these frameworks will co-exist as building a site may require many. Then trying to discover the order in which to start the packages up and searching out the inevitable conflicts can consume an afternoon or come as a surprise sometime later...after being deployed.

I am of a mind that it is hard to tell whether these codekits and frameworks are a curse or a blessing. ;-)

Most recently, I have been playing with the following webkit as it seems fairly simple to get started. It is described as an introduction to HTML5 desktop apps With Node-Webkit and you might also find this kit has potential.

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/introduction-to-html5-desktop-apps-with-node-webkit/

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Salakhetdinov Shamil" <mcp2004 at mail.ru>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 7:52:01 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] FYI: PrePros - an awesome Web design and development tool...

 Hi All

Looking for something like CodeKit (Apple) but for MW Windows I have got at Prepros' web site:  http://alphapixels.com/prepros/  .

 "Prepros is a web design & developement tool that does all the heavy lifting needed to preprocess, optimize and test your sites and keeps your workflow supercharged."

I've got purchased a Pro license of the subject tool and I've started to use it in my learning of all the "hot" web dev technologies/tools, such as SASS, Haml, CoffeScript, TypeScript,...    So far  I like it a lot.

AFAIS from setup files PrePros is developed using node.js and Ruby (on Rails) as well as using some other technologies I'm unaware of.

See also:
http://codepen.io/
http://livereload.com/
http://incident57.com/codekit/
http://compass-style.org/
http://mhs.github.io/scout-app/
http://compass.kkbox.com/
http://fireapp.kkbox.com/
http://learnboost.github.io/stylus/
...
{{ please add you links to similar technologies and tools and post back }}

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