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JavaScript and JSON Essentials - Second Edition

By : Bruno Joseph D'mello, Sai S Sriparasa
Book Image

JavaScript and JSON Essentials - Second Edition

By: Bruno Joseph D'mello, Sai S Sriparasa

Overview of this book

JSON is an established and standard format used to exchange data. This book shows how JSON plays different roles in full web development through examples. By the end of this book, you'll have a new perspective on providing solutions for your applications and handling their complexities. After establishing a strong basic foundation with JSON, you'll learn to build frontend apps by creating a carousel. Next, you'll learn to implement JSON with Angular 5, Node.js, template embedding, and composer.json in PHP. This book will also help you implement Hapi.js (known for its JSON-configurable architecture) for server-side scripting. You'll learn to implement JSON for real-time apps using Kafka, as well as how to implement JSON for a task runner, and for MongoDB BSON storage. The book ends with some case studies on JSON formats to help you sharpen your creativity by exploring futuristic JSON implementations. By the end of the book, you'll be up and running with all the essential features of JSON and JavaScript and able to build fast, scalable, and efficient web applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


The study of JSON drives us toward various developmental phases. In this chapter, we learned about unit testing and automation. We used gulp.js, which proved to be an incredible task runner tool. We learned about two important concepts of unit testing: BDD testing using the node.js assertion library; and mocha.js, the TDD framework for JavaScript apps.

It is highly recommended to unit test as much as we can. This reduces bugs to a great extent and provides maintainability of code over time. As the saying goes:

"If you don't like unit testing your product, most likely your customers won't like to test it either."                             

                                                         – Anonymous

Moving forward in next chapter, things are going to be more interesting when we are going to study about JSON implementation in the realtime system followed by distributed ones.