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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)

Starting out with React

Suppose you want to build a web application. How would you go about it? Unless you have been hiding away somewhere, you are probably aware that there are many frameworks out there that can help you construct and organize your web page. However, you might be wondering, if you already know HTML, CSS, and JS, why use a framework at all, instead of just keeping with vanilla JS, and possibly some library like jQuery or Lodash? After all, a framework imposes some rules and ways of working that you could consider to be offputting or bothersome.

You also have to learn how to use the framework, of course, and you probably won't benefit from it until you become proficient. So, there are several possible answers for the why? question even including Sure, don't use any framework! which could be just fine for a very small, simple project...