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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

Learning the basics


The primary purpose of Git is to keep a history of changes, or revisions. To illustrate this, let's create a simple file and commit it to the history of the repository.

Committing to history

First, let's confirm our repository's Git history by running git log, which shows a history of past commits:

$ git log
fatal: your current branch 'master' does not have any commits yet

The error correctly informs us that there are currently no commits. Now, let's create a short README.md file, which represents the first change we want to commit:

$ cd ~/projects/hobnob/
$ echo -e "# hobnob" >> README.md

We've created our first file and thus made our first change. We can now run git status, which will output information about the current state of our repository. We should see our README.md file being picked up by Git:

$ git status
On branch master
Initial commit
Untracked files: (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
 README.md
nothing added to commit but...