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Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development

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Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development

Overview of this book

Single-page web applications—or SPAs, as they are commonly referred to—are quickly becoming the de facto standard for web app development. The fact that a major part of the app runs inside a single web page makes it very interesting and appealing. Also, the accelerated growth of browser capabilities is pushing us closer to the day when all apps will run entirely in the browser. This book will take your JavaScript development skills to the next level by teaching you to create a single-page application within a full-stack JavaScript environment. Using only JavaScript, you can go from being a front-end developer to a full-stack application developer with relative ease. You will learn to cross the boundary from front-end development to server-side development through the use of JavaScript on both ends. Use your existing knowledge of JavaScript by learning to manage a JSON document data store with MongoDB, writing a JavaScript powered REST API with Node.js and Express, and designing a front-end powered by AngularJS. This book will teach you to leverage the MEAN stack to do everything from document database design, routing REST web API requests, data-binding within views, and adding authentication and security to building a full-fledged, complex, single-page web application. In addition to building a full-stack JavaScript app, you will learn to test it with JavaScript-powered testing tools such as Mocha, Karma, and Jasmine. Finally, you will learn about deployment and scaling so that you can launch your own apps into the real world.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Organized with NPM, Bower, and Grunt
13
Testing with Mocha, Karma, and More

Packaging for deployment


Our application is still quite small and not complicated, but we will begin by setting up an automated process for packaging our application up for deployment.

Setting up Grunt for deployment

We will use the Grunt JavaScript task runner to set up some automated tasks to package up our files for deployment. There's not a lot for us to do here, but you'll get a sense of what can be done and be able to explore the rich selection of Grunt plugins to further customize your automated tasks.

Installing Grunt

If you haven't already, install the grunt CLI using NPM:

$ npm install -g grunt-cli
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For Grunt to run correctly, you'll need two files in your project root directory. The first one is a package.json file to declare dependencies. You already have one in your root directory. The next file you need is Gruntfile.js, where you...