Ask HN: What are your favorite tools for front-end JavaScript development?

I normally setup a 'watch' task including livereload (grunt[0] / gulp[1]), coffee > js compile, jshint. For prototypes, I use yeoman [2] to bootstrap my application and for generators.

[0] https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-livereload [1] https://github.com/vohof/gulp-livereload [2] http://yeoman.io

Thanks a lot, I will check these out.

Two monitors -- So you can keep your editor and browser in view at the same time :)

Become very familiar with your browser of choice's Developer Tools. In most of them you can set breakpoints in your JS, add watches to your code, among many other useful debugging techniques.

Also, two monitors will make your life 1000x easier.