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Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

By : Daniel Li
Book Image

Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

By: Daniel Li

Overview of this book

With the over-abundance of tools in the JavaScript ecosystem, it's easy to feel lost. Build tools, package managers, loaders, bundlers, linters, compilers, transpilers, typecheckers - how do you make sense of it all? In this book, we will build a simple API and React application from scratch. We begin by setting up our development environment using Git, yarn, Babel, and ESLint. Then, we will use Express, Elasticsearch and JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) to build a stateless API service. For the front-end, we will use React, Redux, and Webpack. A central theme in the book is maintaining code quality. As such, we will enforce a Test-Driven Development (TDD) process using Selenium, Cucumber, Mocha, Sinon, and Istanbul. As we progress through the book, the focus will shift towards automation and infrastructure. You will learn to work with Continuous Integration (CI) servers like Jenkins, deploying services inside Docker containers, and run them on Kubernetes. By following this book, you would gain the skills needed to build robust, production-ready applications.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The Importance of Good Code
Index

Running our API


Before we can run our API on the VPS, we need to install the software and libraries it depends on, which include Git, Node, yarn, the Java Development Kit (JDK), and Elasticsearch:

hobnob@hobnob:$ curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
hobnob@hobnob:$ echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
hobnob@hobnob:$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install yarn git default-jdk
hobnob@hobnob:$ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh | bash
hobnob@hobnob:$ echo 'JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64"' | sudo tee --append /etc/environment > /dev/null
hobnob@hobnob:$ cd && wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-6.3.2.deb
hobnob@hobnob:$ sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-6.3.2.deb
hobnob@hobnob:$ rm elasticsearch-6.3.2.deb
hobnob@hobnob:$ sudo systemctl start elasticsearch.service
hobnob@hobnob:$ sudo systemctl enable...