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Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

By : Daniel Li
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Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

4.6 (5)
By: Daniel Li

Overview of this book

With the over-abundance of tools in the JavaScript ecosystem, it's easy to feel lost. Build tools, package managers, loaders, bundlers, linters, compilers, transpilers, typecheckers - how do you make sense of it all? In this book, we will build a simple API and React application from scratch. We begin by setting up our development environment using Git, yarn, Babel, and ESLint. Then, we will use Express, Elasticsearch and JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) to build a stateless API service. For the front-end, we will use React, Redux, and Webpack. A central theme in the book is maintaining code quality. As such, we will enforce a Test-Driven Development (TDD) process using Selenium, Cucumber, Mocha, Sinon, and Istanbul. As we progress through the book, the focus will shift towards automation and infrastructure. You will learn to work with Continuous Integration (CI) servers like Jenkins, deploying services inside Docker containers, and run them on Kubernetes. By following this book, you would gain the skills needed to build robust, production-ready applications.
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The Importance of Good Code

Managing States with Redux

Remember that, previously, we said that it is not good to have application states in multiple places, because it makes debugging much harder. Therefore, we moved states from the input components to the form components. But now that we have two forms, we once again have states in two places. Therefore, we need to move the states up again. The most ideal case is where our application has only one state store.

However, if we keep moving states up, and passing the relevant state properties down as props, it can be quite un-performant. Let's say a component is nested 20 layers deep; for it to consume the state it needs, the state needs to have passed through 19 components.

Furthermore, let's say the same heavily nested component needs to change the state; it will have to call its onChange prop, prompting its parent to call its onChange prop...

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