Understand why build tools are essential in modern web development.
- What are build tools?
- Modern development workflow
- Module systems overview
- Task runners vs bundlers
- Build tool ecosystem
- Development vs production
- Performance benefits
- Tool selection criteria
Set up Vite for lightning-fast development and hot module replacement.
- Vite installation and setup
- Project initialization
- Development server
- Hot module replacement
- TypeScript support
- CSS preprocessing
- Asset handling
- Plugin ecosystem
Learn Webpack's core concepts: entry points, loaders, and plugins.
- Webpack configuration
- Entry and output
- Loaders concept
- Plugin system
- Mode configuration
- Module resolution
- Dependency graph
- Basic optimization
Configure Webpack for production builds and code splitting.
- Production configuration
- Code splitting strategies
- Dynamic imports
- Chunk optimization
- Source maps
- Performance budgets
- Tree shaking
- Bundle analysis
Process and optimize CSS, images, and fonts for better performance.
- CSS processing and minification
- Image optimization
- Font optimization
- Asset compression
- Critical CSS
- Lazy loading assets
- CDN integration
- Cache optimization
Analyze bundle sizes and eliminate dead code from your applications.
- Bundle analyzer tools
- Tree shaking concepts
- Dead code elimination
- Import analysis
- Library optimization
- Polyfill management
- Size monitoring
- Performance metrics
Manage different environments with environment-specific configurations.
- Environment variables
- Configuration files
- Development vs production
- Staging environments
- Secrets management
- Feature flags
- API endpoints
- Build variants
Create efficient build scripts and automate common development tasks.
- NPM scripts setup
- Script composition
- Cross-platform scripts
- Task automation
- Pre and post hooks
- Package management
- Dependency auditing
- Script optimization
Deploy static sites and React applications to GitHub Pages.
- GitHub Pages setup
- Static site deployment
- Custom domains
- GitHub Actions workflow
- Build automation
- Route configuration
- HTTPS setup
- Deployment strategies
Leverage Netlify's features including forms and serverless functions.
- Netlify platform overview
- Continuous deployment
- Form handling
- Serverless functions
- Edge functions
- Analytics integration
- A/B testing
- Performance optimization
Set up continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
- GitHub Actions basics
- Workflow automation
- Build pipelines
- Testing integration
- Deployment automation
- Environment management
- Security scanning
- Monitoring and alerts
Monitor deployed applications and implement optimization strategies.
- Performance monitoring
- Core Web Vitals
- Error tracking
- User analytics
- Performance budgets
- Optimization strategies
- Caching strategies
- CDN optimization