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Modern Frontend Development with Node.js

By : Florian Rappl
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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

Part 2: Tooling

In this part, you’ll strengthen your knowledge of the Node.js ecosystem by getting in touch with a variety of tools and utilities. You’ll learn how you can use different flavors of JavaScript in Node.js. Examples here include TypeScript and Flow. You’ll also see which code verification and style checkers exist and how to use them.

The main focus of this part is to enable you to set up and maintain a new web development project from scratch. This also includes knowledge about quality assurance. As part of these topics, utilities such as Jest or Playwright are discussed.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 4, Using Different Flavors of JavaScript
  • Chapter 5, Enhancing Code Quality with Linters and Formatters
  • Chapter 6, Building Web Apps with Bundlers
  • Chapter 7, Improving Reliability with Testing Tools