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Isomorphic JavaScript Web Development

By : Tomas Alabes, Konstantin Tarkus
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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

Summary


By the end of this chapter, you should have learned how to install and configure Browsersync and Hot Module Replacement (HMR) as well as launch the Node.js app for development purposes. The configuration described in this chapter is optimized for isomorphic web application development and should dramatically improve your development workflow. Now, you should be able to edit UI elements faster as you can instantly see the result of your work in a browser and on mobile devices and spend less time on debugging.

In the next chapter, you will learn about many different aspects related to rendering a web application on the server.