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Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

By : Daniel Li
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Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

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.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The Importance of Good Code
Index

Cluster management


Deploying our application in a microservices manner inside a cluster is simple enough in principle, but actually quite complex to implement.

First, you must provision servers to act as nodes inside your cluster. Then, we'll need to set up a handful of tools that work in concert with each other to manage your cluster. These tools can be categorized into two groups:

  • Cluster-level tools: Works at the cluster level, and makes global decisions that affect the whole cluster
  • Node-level tools: Resides within each node. It takes instructions from, and feedback to, cluster-level tools in order to coordinate the management of services running inside the node.

For the cluster-level tools, you'll need the following:

  • A scheduler: This dictates which node a particular service will be deployed on.
  • A Discovery Service: This keeps a record of how many instances of each service are deployed, their states (for example, starting, running, terminating and so on.), where they're deployed, and so on...