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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)

Organizing code in modules

As today's JS applications become more and more complex, working with namespaces and dependencies becomes ever more difficult to handle. A key solution to this problem was the concept of modules, which allows you to partition your solution in independent parts, taking advantage of encapsulation to avoid conflict between different modules. In this section, we'll look at how to work in this fashion. However, we'll start with a previous JS pattern, which may become useful in its own way.

Node, which we'll be working with starting with the next chapter, also does modules but in a different fashion, so we'll postpone the discussion of its modules for now.

How to do it...

Organizing...