"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
This book/course assumes readers understand the basics of JavaScript.
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
PART 1: BUILD PROCESS
Chapter 1. Introduction to Build First 00:06:25
Chapter 1. Build First 00:04:45
Chapter 1. Planning ahead with Build First 00:05:24
Chapter 1. Build processes 00:04:51
Chapter 1. Handling application complexity and design 00:06:37
Chapter 1. Diving into Build First 00:08:46
Chapter 1. Lint in the command line 00:08:28
Chapter 2. Composing build tasks and flows 00:08:42
Chapter 2. Setting up your first Grunt task 00:05:52
Chapter 2. Preprocessing and static asset optimization 00:06:06
Chapter 2. Doing LESS 00:08:34
Chapter 2. Static asset minification 00:09:52
Chapter 2. Setting up code integrity 00:06:33
Chapter 2. Writing your first build task 00:07:46
Chapter 3. Mastering environments and the development workflow 00:03:24