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Covers setting up npm and Gulp for live reloading via BrowserSync, adding Babel transpilation for modern JavaScript, configuring CSS/JS minification with Terser and UglifyCSS for production builds, and wiring everything together with the frontend-maven-plugin so Maven builds automatically process frontend assets. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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