JavaScript Application Design

JavaScript Application Design: A Build First Approach introduces JavaScript developers to techniques that will improve the quality of their software, as well as, their web development workflow. You'll begin by learning how to establish build processes that are appropriate for JavaScript-driven development. Then, you'll walk through best practices for productive day-to-day development, like running tasks when your code changes, deploying applications with a single command, and monitoring the state of your application once it's in production.

This book assumes readers understand the basics of JavaScript.

What's 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

Table of Contents
PART 1 BUILD PROCESSES
• Introduction to Build First
• Composing build tasks and flows
• Mastering environments and the development workflow
• Release, deployment, and monitoring. PART 2 MANAGING COMPLEXITY
• Embracing modularity and dependency management
• Understanding asynchronous flow control methods in JavaScript
• Leveraging the Model-View-Controller
• Testing JavaScript components
• REST API design and layered service architectures