wdev v0.0.3

WDev

WDev is a command line utility designed to help web development at the beginning of the developer's career.

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Why?

I've spent almost one year of my life teaching the basics of web development to people who were completely strangers to this mighty and vaste universe.

I discovered there are tons of concepts that needs to be learned, among those the environment which runs the code.

Setting up a simple server (NIGIX, Apache) it's a difficult business, setting up Grunt / Gulp to transpile LESS is even more difficult, especially if you don't know Javascript!

I think those guys need a tool that allows in focusing on getting an Hello World done, not getting the exercise being executed!

Features

• run your html through a proper HTTP server
• get code hints for Javascript, CSS, Less, Sass

• transparent transpilers:

  • write CSS, Less or Sass
  • write ES6 or even ES7
  • use ES6 modules* to include Javascript into Javascript

(*) to be done

Install & Run

WDev comes as a globally available command line tool:

npm install -g wdev

Once it is installed you can easily bootstrap a new web project:

// setup a new empty folder
mkdir my-web-project
cd my-web-project

// this run the magic!
wdev 

You project will be available at http://localhost:8080 immediately, and every change in your project's folder will be reflected in the server.