Front End Development Basic Tools

Overview
Npm is your toolbox, including tools such as bower and gulp
Bower is a package manager. It pulls down the javascript libraries you want locally. We (generally) don’t want to keep these in source control, as the gulp optimized ones are kept in source control instead.
Gulp is run over the top of your source files to minimize, optimize, and otherwise process CSS, JS, and Images for production use.
SASS
Sass is a stylesheet language that’s compiled to CSS. It allows you to use variables, nested rules, mixins, functions, and more, all with a fully CSS-compatible syntax. Sass helps keep large stylesheets well-organized and makes it easy to share design within and across projects.
https://sass-lang.com/
https://sass-lang.com/guide
https://css-tricks.com/the-sass-ampersand/

BEM
BEM  (Block Element Modifier) is a styling methodology that helps you to create reusable components and code sharing in front-end development.

Block: Standalone entity that is meaningful on its own.
Element: A part of a block that has no standalone meaning and is semantically tied to its block.
Modifier: A flag on a block or element. Use them to change appearance or behavior.

Official Website: http://getbem.com/
Quick Start: http://getbem.com/introduction/

NPM
npm makes it easy for JavaScript developers to share and reuse code, and makes it easy to update the code that you’re sharing, so you can build amazing things.

Official Website: https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm

Gulp
Gulp is a task runner.

Modern web development has many repetitive tasks like running a local server, minifying code, optimizing images, preprocessing CSS and more. This text discusses gulp, a build tool for automating these tasks. Gulp is a cross-platform, streaming task runner that lets developers automate many development tasks. At a high level, gulp reads files as streams and pipes the streams to different tasks. These tasks are code-based and use plugins. The tasks modify the files, building source files into production files.

Official Website: https://gulpjs.com/
Quick Start: https://gulpjs.com/docs/en/getting-started/quick-start


Also see:
https://developers.google.com/web/ilt/pwa/introduction-to-gulp

Bower
Bower is a package manager. It works by fetching, downloading, and installing packages as needed.

Official Website: https://bower.io/

.NET Core
.NET Core is an open-source, general-purpose development platform maintained by Microsoft and the .NET community on GitHub. It’s cross-platform (supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux) and can be used to build device, cloud, and IoT applications.

Official Website: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/

Also see:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/

Razor Pages
Razor is a server-side markup language that lets you embed server-based code (Visual Basic and C#) into web pages.

See:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/razor-pages/?view=aspnetcore-2.2&tabs=visual-studio
https://www.w3schools.com/asp/razor_intro.asp

Nuget
NuGet is the package manager for .NET. The NuGet client tools provide the ability to produce and consume packages. The NuGet Gallery is the central package repository used by all package authors and consumers.

Official Website: https://www.nuget.org/