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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
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Part 2: Tooling
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Part 3: Advanced Topics

Enhancing Code Quality with Linters and Formatters

Up to this chapter, we’ve dealt mostly with constructs and code that has been in the hot path – that is, directly necessary to actually do something. However, in most projects, there are many parts that are not directly useful or visible. Quite often, these parts play a crucial role in keeping projects at a certain quality.

One example in the field of software project quality enhancers is the tooling that is used to ensure certain coding standards are being followed. Those tools can appear in many categories – the most prominent categories being linters and formatters. In general, these tools can be categorized as auxiliary tooling.

In this chapter, we’ll learn what types of auxiliary tooling exist and why we’d potentially want to use some extra tooling to enhance our project’s code quality. We’ll introduce the most important auxiliary tools such as ESLint, Stylelint, and Prettier...