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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)

Code splitting for performance

As your application grows in size, it will progressively be slower to load, and that will be off-putting to your users. (And, remember that not everybody has access to high-speed connections, especially in mobile devices!) Furthermore, users shouldn't have to download the whole code if they only need a small part of it: for example, if a user wants to browse products, why should the sign-up view be downloaded?

The solution to this space and speed problem is code splitting, which implies that your application will be broken down into smaller chunks that will be loaded only if needed. Fortunately, there are very good tools for this, which don't involve many changes to your existing code, so it's a win all around.

Getting ready

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