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"Enjoy the ride through the process of improving your development workflow."
Addy Osmani, Google
The fate of most applications is often sealed before a single line of code has been written. How is that possible? Simply, bad design assures bad results. Good design and effective processes are the foundation on which maintainable applications are built, scaled, and improved. For JavaScript developers, this means discovering the tooling, modern libraries, and architectural patterns that enable those improvements.
JavaScript Application Design: A Build First Approach introduces techniques to improve software quality and development workflow. You'll begin by learning how to establish processes designed to optimize the quality of your work. You'll execute tasks whenever your code changes, run tests on every commit, and deploy in an automated fashion. Then you'll focus on designing modular components and composing them together to build robust applications.
Inside:
- Automated development, testing, and deployment processes
- JavaScript fundamentals and modularity best practices
- Modular, maintainable, and well-tested applications
- Master asynchronous flows, embrace MVC, and design a REST API
Nicolas Bevacqua is a freelance developer with a focus on modular JavaScript, build processes, and sharp design. He maintains a blog at ponyfoo.com.
For JavaScript developers, a must-read!
Stephen Wakely, Thomson Reuters
An excellent guide through the maze of the modern JavaScript ecosystem.
Jonas Bandi, IvoryCode GmbH
The first-ever design book for developers.
Sandeep Kumar Patel, SAP Labs
A one-stop shop introducing JavaScript developers to modern practices and tools.
Matthew Merkes, MyNeighbor
NARRATED BY KEN FRICKLAS
Table of contents
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PART 1: BUILD PROCESS
- Chapter 1. Introduction to Build First
- Chapter 1. Build First
- Chapter 1. Planning ahead with Build First
- Chapter 1. Build processes
- Chapter 1. Handling application complexity and design
- Chapter 1. Diving into Build First
- Chapter 1. Lint in the command line
- Chapter 2. Composing build tasks and flows
- Chapter 2. Setting up your first Grunt task
- Chapter 2. Preprocessing and static asset optimization
- Chapter 2. Doing LESS
- Chapter 2. Static asset minification
- Chapter 2. Setting up code integrity
- Chapter 2. Writing your first build task
- Chapter 3. Mastering environments and the development workflow
- Chapter 3. Configuring build distributions
- Chapter 3. Environment-level configuration
- Chapter 3. Configuring environments
- Chapter 3. Using encryption to harden environment configuration security
- Chapter 3. Automating tedious first-time setup tasks
- Chapter 3. A text editor that cares
- Chapter 4. Release, deployment, and monitoring
- Chapter 4. Static asset caching
- Chapter 4. Predeployment operations
- Chapter 4. Deploying to Heroku
- Chapter 4. Continuous integration
- Chapter 4. Monitoring and diagnostics
- Chapter 4. Debugging Node applications
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PART 2: MANAGING COMPLEXITY
- Chapter 5. Embracing modularity and dependency management
- Chapter 5. Information hiding and interfaces
- Chapter 5. Strict mode
- Chapter 5. JavaScript modules
- Chapter 5. Using dependency management
- Chapter 5. Browserify: CJS in the browser
- Chapter 5. Understanding package management
- Chapter 5. Choosing the right module system
- Chapter 5. Harmony: a glimpse of ECMAScript 6
- Chapter 6. Understanding asynchronous flow control methods in JavaScript
- Chapter 6. Requests upon requests
- Chapter 6. Using the async library
- Chapter 6. Asynchronous task queues
- Chapter 6. Making Promises
- Chapter 6. Controlling the flow
- Chapter 6. Understanding events
- Chapter 6. Glimpse of the future: ES6 generators
- Chapter 7. Leveraging the Model-View-Controller
- Chapter 7. Model-View-Controller in JavaScript
- Chapter 7. Introduction to Backbone
- Chapter 7. Organizing models with Backbone collections
- Chapter 7. Case study: the shopping list
- Chapter 7. Adding items to your cart
- Chapter 7. Using inline editing
- Chapter 7. A service layer and view routing
- Chapter 7. Backbone and Rendr: server/client shared rendering
- Chapter 7. A simple Rendr application
- Chapter 8. Testing JavaScript components
- Chapter 8. Tape in the browser
- Chapter 8. Mocks, spies, and proxies
- Chapter 8. Testing in the browser
- Chapter 8. Case study: testing DOM interaction
- Chapter 8. Application definition
- Chapter 8. Case study: unit testing the MVC shopping list
- Chapter 8. Automating Tape tests
- Chapter 8. Integration, visual, and performance testing
- Chapter 9. REST API design and layered service architectures
- Chapter 9. Learning REST API design
- Chapter 9. Endpoints, HTTP verbs, and versioning
- Chapter 9. Requests, responses, and status codes
- Chapter 9. Paging, caching, and throttling
- Chapter 9. Implementing layered service architectures
- Chapter 9. Consuming a REST API on the client side
Product information
- Title: JavaScript Application Design video edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2015
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: None
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