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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)

Making a distributable package

Now that we have a full app, all that's left to do is package it up so that you can deliver it as an executable file for Windows, Linux, or macOS users. Let's finish the chapter by looking at how to do that in this recipe.

How to do it...

There are many ways of packaging an app, but we'll use a tool, electron-builder, that will make it even easier, if you can get its configuration right!

You can read more about electron-builder, its capabilities, and its configuration at https://www.electron.build/.

Let's take a look at the necessary steps. First of all, we'll have to begin by defining the build configuration, and our initial step will be, as always, to install the tool...