Image Optimizer: Optimize your images for web consumpton.

Web Analyzer: Get static analysis for JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, CoffeeScript, CSS right inside Visual Studio.

( Although you might consider making this a part of your front-end pipeline)

Web Compiler: A plugin that lets you compile LESS, SASS, JSX, ES6 and CoffeeScript within Visual Studio or MsBuild.

Web Essentials 2015: Epic Visual Studio Plugin that has many small editor improvements, features and shortcuts to make your life as a web developer easier.

If command-line is not your cup of tea, or you just feel more comfortable staying inside the comfortable walls of Visual Studio, then the Web Extension Pack is right for you, since it brings all these modern web development tools right into Visual Studio. If you are familiar with modern web development you’ll have noticed that it is very command-line driven. This week’s Barbaric Tip is Mads Kristensen’s great Web Extension Pack for Visual Studio, a bundle of super helpful plugins that will improve your web development experience and bring modern web development into Visual Studio 2015.

Barbaric Tip of the Week is a weekly series whose main purpose is to share tiny bits of knowledge that I find specially useful and interesting.

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