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Modern Frontend Development with Node.js

By : Florian Rappl
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Book Image

Modern Frontend Development with Node.js

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By: Florian Rappl

Overview of this book

Almost a decade after the release of Node.js, the tooling used by frontend developers is fully embracing this cross-platform JavaScript runtime, which is sadly often limited to server-side web development. This is where this Node.js book comes in, showing you what this popular runtime has to offer and how you can unlock its full potential to create frontend-focused web apps. You’ll begin by learning the basics and internals of Node.js, before discovering how to divide your code into modules and packages. Next, you’ll get to grips with the most popular package managers and their uses and find out how to use TypeScript and other JavaScript variants with Node.js. Knowing which tool to use when is crucial, so this book helps you understand all the available state-of-the-art tools in Node.js. You’ll interact with linters such as ESLint and formatters such as Prettier. As you advance, you’ll become well-versed with the Swiss Army Knife for frontend developers – the bundler. You’ll also explore various testing utilities, such as Jest, for code quality verification. Finally, you’ll be able to publish your code in reusable packages with ease. By the end of this web development book, you’ll have gained the knowledge to confidently choose the right code structure for your repositories with all that you’ve learned about monorepos.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1: Node.js Fundamentals
5
Part 2: Tooling
10
Part 3: Advanced Topics

Structuring Code in Monorepos

In the previous chapter, you learned about everything to create and publish great libraries and tools to enhance your projects. While some packages are created in a bit of vacuum, most already have a consuming application in mind. In this case, having two separate repositories – that is, one for the application and one for the library – is quite some overhead. After all, any change to the library should be at least partially tested before the library is published. A good way to make this relation more efficient is to structure this code in a monorepo.

A monorepo is a single code repository that hosts multiple projects. Since we focus on Node.js projects, we can say that a monorepo is a repository containing multiple packages identified by their own package.json.

Today, monorepos are frequently used to power some of the largest Node.js project code bases in the world. If you want to properly read and contribute to projects such as Angular...