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Node.js 6.x Blueprints

By : Fernando Monteiro
Book Image

Node.js 6.x Blueprints

By: Fernando Monteiro

Overview of this book

Node.js is the most popular framework to create server-side applications today. Be it web, desktop, or mobile, Node.js comes to your rescue to create stunning real-time applications. Node.js 6.x Blueprints will teach you to build these types of projects in an easy-to-understand manner. The key to any Node.js project is a strong foundation on the concepts that will be a part of every project. The book will first teach you the MVC design pattern while developing a Twitter-like application using Express.js. In the next chapters, you will learn to create a website and applications such as streaming, photography, and a store locator using MongoDB, MySQL, and Firebase. Once you’re warmed up, we’ll move on to more complex projects such as a consumer feedback app, a real-time chat app, and a blog using Node.js with frameworks such as loopback.io and socket.io. Finally, we’ll explore front-end build processes, Docker, and continuous delivery. By the end of book, you will be comfortable working with Node.js applications and will know the best tools and frameworks to build highly scalable desktop and cloud applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Node.js 6.x Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 9.  Building a Frontend Process with Node.js and NPM

As we mentioned before in previous chapters, we can use the facilities from Node Package Manager (NPM) to replace Gulp and the Grunt task manager, which are the most popular tools for dealing with frontend dependencies. We can combine both tools, but in this chapter we will explore only NPM and some commands that will help us create our application.

We will create building tasks to lint, concatenate, and minify Javascript files, optimize images, compile SASS stylesheets, and deploy the application to a server in the cloud, by just using the command line. Furthermore, for this example we will use the Loopback.io framework to create the application example with MongoDB as the database.

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • How to create an application using only the Loopback.io CLI

  • How to install eslint, imagemin, and browserify

  • How to create tasks to lint errors, concatenate JS files, and optimize images

  • How to deal with SASS import and...