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Modern JavaScript Web Development Cookbook

By : Federico Kereki
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Modern JavaScript Web Development Cookbook

By: Federico Kereki

Overview of this book

JavaScript has evolved into a language that you can use on any platform. Modern JavaScript Web Development Cookbook is a perfect blend of solutions for traditional JavaScript development and modern areas that developers have lately been exploring with JavaScript. This comprehensive guide teaches you how to work with JavaScript on servers, browsers, mobile phones and desktops. You will start by exploring the new features of ES8. You will then move on to learning the use of ES8 on servers (with Node.js), with the objective of producing services and microservices and dealing with authentication and CORS. Once you get accustomed to ES8, you will learn to apply it to browsers using frameworks, such as React and Redux, which interact through Ajax with services. You will then understand the use of a modern framework to develop the UI. In addition to this, development for mobile devices with React Native will walk you through the benefits of creating native apps, both for Android and iOS. Finally, you’ll be able to apply your new-found knowledge of server-side and client-side tools to develop applications with Electron.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Introduction

JavaScript has gone beyond a simple tool for adding small effects or behaviors to web pages, and has now become one of the world's most-used languages, applied to all sorts of developments. Given the complexity and variety of packages, libraries, and frameworks these days, you wouldn't start working without a full set of tools, and in this chapter we will aim to set up a good development environment, so you can work in a most efficient fashion.

Let's start by setting up some tools that will come in handy for all our JS development. It's been said that a bad craftsman blames his tools, so let's avoid even a hint of that by making some good choices!