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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

5 (1)
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

Introducing Stylelint

Stylelint is a linter for CSS files and can be extended to also understand CSS dialects such as SCSS, Sass, Less, or SugarCSS. It has over 170 built-in rules but, much like ESLint, provides support for custom rules.

To install Stylelint, we can follow the same steps as with ESLint:

  1. Here, it usually makes sense to rely on the standard configuration provided by Stylelint. Unlike ESLint, the standard configuration is released in a separate package and, therefore, needs to be installed as well. The command to install both packages as development dependencies looks like this:
    $ npm install stylelint stylelint-config-standard
      --save-dev
  2. In any case, we still require a configuration file. For the moment, it is sufficient to just let stylelint know that we want to use the configuration from the stylelint-config-standard package. Here, we can write another configuration file next to the project’s package.json:

.stylelintrc...