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Isomorphic JavaScript Web Development

By : Tomas Alabes, Konstantin Tarkus
Book Image

Isomorphic JavaScript Web Development

By: Tomas Alabes, Konstantin Tarkus

Overview of this book

<p>The latest trend in web development, Isomorphic JavaScript, allows developers to overcome some of the shortcomings of single-page applications by running the same code on the server as well as on the client. Leading this trend is React, which, when coupled with Node, allows developers to build JavaScript apps that are much faster and more SEO-friendly than single-page applications.</p> <p>This book begins by showing you how to develop frontend components in React. It will then show you how to bind these components to back-end web services that leverage the power of Node. You'll see how web services can be used with React code to offload and maintain the application logic. By the end of this book, you will be able to save a significant amount of development time by learning to combine React and Node to code fast, scalable apps in pure JavaScript.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Grouping UI components in a project


There are two extremes when it comes to the organization of UI components within a project, one of which is to put every single component into the same folder, regardless of when and how they are supposed to be used. The other extreme is to create many subfolders for each group of components.

Both approaches have their cons and pros. But, as you may guess, we advise you to have a habit of always thinking about what might be the most balanced approach, the golden mean, taking into consideration the size of your project, and other similar aspects.

Later in this book, we are going to split our components into two major groups and create a separate folder for each of them. Some components are either going to be shared (reused on multiple screens) or generic (not necessarily related to any particular screen or web page). We are going to put them into the components folder. Inside the components folder, we are always going to create a separate subfolder for each...