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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how code quality can be enhanced with the help of linters and formatters. You can now use common tools such as EditorConfig, Prettier, Stylelint, or ESLint. You are now able to add, configure, and run these tools in any project that you like.

At this point, you can contribute to pretty much all frontend projects that are based on Node.js for their tooling. Also, you can introduce great quality enhancers such as Prettier. Once successfully introduced, these tools ensure that certain quality gates are always fulfilled. In the case of Prettier, discussions about code style are mostly a thing of the past – helping teams all around the world to actually focus on the actual problem instead of dealing with code cosmetics.

A downside to keep in mind is that most of these tools have some assumptions about your code. So, if your code uses, for instance, one of the flavors we discussed in Chapter 4, Using Different Flavors of JavaScript, then...