What tools are faster, easier and more correct to develop and assemble the front end (layout + wordpress)?

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css

I would like to hear the opinion of professionals who have tested many of these things from personal experience. Preferably a list of tools and a brief description of how it works.
I am engaged in a verst + a stretch on the VP. I think how to speed up the start of a new project and simplify the transition from layout to stretching.
While I use openServer + phpStorm + gulp
There are a lot of ready-made solutions, tools such as: webpack, yeoman, Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants, css hat, avocode, jade, emmet, bem, scss, various starter kit, quick start, bedrock, etc. but you have to kill a lot of time to try out most of them and understand which is better.

Answer 1

webpack in your case would be redundant, IMHO.
if it's a webpack, then you can use create-react-app to quickly prototype something - there is already a ready-made / configured / peppered webpack with hot module replacement.
in normal cases (like pulling the layout on wordpress or django), I usually use a gallp with liveload, which I once set up and forgot - in my opinion the best solution. You can either write a setting specifically for your needs, or you can find a ready-made one.
I can share mine - https://github.com/fnnzzz/gulp-config
for some very simple things - you can use npm scripts directly: https://gist.github.com/fnnzzz/f90304458ee24307a3d...
as for other tools:
used to sit on a sublime with a zoo of plugins for a long time (emmet, anything for syntax, snippets, etc.), recently moved to webstorm and am satisfied (especially synchronizing settings through the repository)
from preprocessors I use only SCSS + bam, but bam uses a little customized with modifiers through a minus (read here - frontender.info/bem-sass-modifiers/)
but to be honest, you don't have to drive too hard - choose tools that are convenient for you and don't pay attention to the hype.

Answer 2

I am engaged in a verst + a stretch on the VP.

For this (and for most others) a normal editor is enough. Possibly an IDE.
For a local server, it’s better not to use Windows forks, but a virtual machine with Linux.