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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 your application responsive to screen sizes

Creating a web application means that you cannot assume any given display size. In fact, the user may change the browser's window size, and your application should somehow respond to that, rearranging whatever is shown on screen to better work with the current screen dimensions. If your web application is capable of this reorganization, it's said to be responsive. Today, given the extreme range of devices with browsers (ranging from small phone handsets to very large flat screens), doing responsive design is really a must, so in this section we'll see how to work with this. I'll assume you are already aware of CSS concepts such as grids and columnar designs; please read up on them if not.

To allay a common, fairly obvious question, if you are aware of current trends in CSS, you may ask why aren't we using...