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New comment by pavelgavlik in "Facebook Messenger XMPP is going away"

pavelgavlik — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:43:38 +0000

I would be also interested in Messenger integration in Adium (It uses same library as Pidgin.).

New comment by pavelgavlik in "PHỞ: Automated workflow for front-end"

pavelgavlik — Mon, 26 May 2014 16:37:55 +0000

Not at all, it's a set of configurable Gulp tasks and a Yeoman generator.

New comment by pavelgavlik in "PHỞ: Automated workflow for front-end"

pavelgavlik — Mon, 26 May 2014 14:58:29 +0000

> "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.

New comment by pavelgavlik in "PHỞ: Automated workflow for front-end"

pavelgavlik — Mon, 26 May 2014 14:00:22 +0000

I like vietnamese cuisine :-)

New comment by pavelgavlik in "PHỞ: Automated workflow for front-end"

pavelgavlik — Mon, 26 May 2014 13:55:33 +0000

(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.