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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)

Adding Node functionality to your app

In the previous recipe, we saw that with just a few small configuration changes, we can turn our web page into an application. However, you're still restricted in terms of what you can do, because you are still using only those features available in a sandboxed browser window. You don't have to think this way, for you can add basically all Node functionality using functions that let you go beyond the limits of the web. Let's see how to do it in this recipe.

How to do it...

We want to add some functionality to our app of the kind that a typical desktop would have. Let's see how can we do that. The key to adding Node functions to your app is to use the remote module...