Build Steps and Deployment (Austin Pray)

Based on the discussion over here: roots/roots/pull/1257.

These days your web project probably has a build step. Your build step takes your styles, scripts, and other assets and packages them for the browser. Maybe you are using gulp, grunt, or even make to orchestrate all your compilation steps. This post covers a couple methods for deploying projects with compiled assets and each method’s respective gotchas.

Source: Build Steps and Deployment

Know it all

A big list of all the props, values, methods, functions, interfaces, modules, constants, constructors, events, attributes, parameters, return values, variables, elements, statements, operators, declarations, types, primatives, selectors and units of all the APIs related to web development.

Source: Know it all

Enabling Virtualization Technology in Lenovo Systems

Intel VT-x virtualization

Many PC laptops (especially those from Lenovo, HP, and Dell) have Intel’s VT-x virtualization turned off by default, which can cause issues with many Vagrant boxes. Check your computer manufacturer’s knowledge base for instructions for enabling VT-x in your system BIOS/UEFI settings.

Lenovo instructions:

http://amiduos.com/support/knowledge-base/article/enabling-virtualization-in-lenovo-systems

‘Source path too long’. Deleting a directory in Windows 10 with  using robocopy

link:

http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2016/deleting-directory-windows-10-source-path-too-long-using-robocopy

Jeff Geerling

For some reason, Windows doesn’t play well with deep folder hierarchies. Often, when building Drupal projects inside VMs with synced directories, I end up with folders with 10+ levels of hierarchy, and when I try to delete the directory within windows, I get the error “Source path too long”