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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

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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

Using yarn instead of npm


npm is the default package manager, but Facebook, in collaboration with Exponent, Google, and Tilde, has since developed a better alternative, called yarn, which we will use instead.

yarn (https://yarnpkg.com/en/) uses the same https://www.npmjs.com/ registry as the npm CLI. Since they both just install packages inside node_modules directories and write to package.json, you can use npm and yarn interchangeably. The differences are in their methods for resolving and downloading dependencies.

Package version locking

When we specify our dependencies inside our package.json file, we can use symbols to indicate a range of acceptable versions. For example, >version means the installed version must be greater than a certain version, ~version means approximately equivalent (which means it can be up to the next minor version), and ^version means compatible (which usually means the highest version without a change in the major version). This means that given the same package...

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