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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

Configuring Webpack for images and CSS


The problem we're trying to solve by being able to write modular CSS is having all the CSS, images, and other resource files split across many React components folders. When module bundler creates the application bundle (build/public/client.js in our case), it should be able to resolve all the CSS files, images, and other assets used in the app and either inject them into the application bundle itself or copy to the output (build/public) folder during compilation.

In order to solve this problem, let's install the following npm modules:

  • postcss: Pre-processor for CSS files
  • postcss-import: PostCSS plugin that allows referencing other CSS files in your code, for example, @import '../variables.scss'
  • postcss-loader: PostCSS loader for Webpack
  • precss: PostCSS plugin that enables Sass syntax in CSS files
  • autoprefixer: PostCSS plugin that appends vendor-specific CSS rules
  • css-loader: Webpack loader that parses CSS and enables CSS modules
  • style-loader: Webpack loader...