# tooling/book-of-modern-frontend-tooling

The Front-end Tooling Book

Repository: https://github.com/tooling/book-of-modern-frontend-tooling
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/book-of-modern-frontend-tooling
Homepage: http://tooling.github.io/book-of-modern-frontend-tooling/
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Last push: 2020-03-14T01:04:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4633, "days_push": 2364, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2505, forks 173 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:57.102823+00:00)

## What it is
A free, open-source book introducing developers to tooling for modern front-end web applications, covering build systems, scaffolding, and dependency management. It is a work-in-progress community-written resource that can be exported to EPUB and read as an HTML site.

## Use cases
- learn frontend build tools like gulp and grunt
- understand dependency management with npm and browserify
- get started with webpack as a beginner
- find a free book on modern web application tooling
- learn about scaffolding tools like yeoman

## When to choose
- you want a beginner-friendly introduction to classic front-end tooling concepts
- you prefer community-reviewed, open-source learning material
- you need a quick overview of build systems, scaffolding, and dependency management

## When to avoid
- you need up-to-date coverage of modern tooling like Vite or esbuild
- you want a finished, polished book rather than a work-in-progress
- you need current best practices, since content dates from around 2014-2020

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: abandoned
- function: documentation, build-tool, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools, tutorials
- platform: -
- tags: open-source-book, frontend-tooling, build-systems, dependency-management, scaffolding, epub, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- tooling/book-of-modern-frontend-tooling (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:57.102823+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:26:44.352688+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tooling/book-of-modern-frontend-tooling (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:57.102823+00:00, sha 8c8d947ca688)
  - homepage: http://tooling.github.io/book-of-modern-frontend-tooling/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:08:58.570806+00:00, sha 6f3aa0cfb8a2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.