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Modern Frontend Development with Node.js

You're reading from   Modern Frontend Development with Node.js A compendium for modern JavaScript web development within the Node.js ecosystem

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804618295
Length 208 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Node.js Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Learning about the Internals of Node.js FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Dividing Code into Modules and Packages 4. Chapter 3: Choosing a Package Manager 5. Part 2: Tooling
6. Chapter 4: Using Different Flavors of JavaScript 7. Chapter 5: Enhancing Code Quality with Linters and Formatters 8. Chapter 6: Building Web Apps with Bundlers 9. Chapter 7: Improving Reliability with Testing Tools 10. Part 3: Advanced Topics
11. Chapter 8: Publishing npm Packages 12. Chapter 9: Structuring Code in Monorepos 13. Chapter 10: Integrating Native Code with WebAssembly 14. Chapter 11: Using Alternative Runtimes 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Choosing a Package Manager

So far, we have learned a bit about Node.js and its internal modules. We also started to write our own modules, but we have either avoided or worked around using third-party packages.

One of the big advantages of Node.js is that using other people’s code is actually quite easy. The path to doing so leads us directly to package managers. A package manager helps us to handle the life cycle of packages containing modules that can be used in Node.js.

In this chapter, we’ll learn how Node.js’s de facto standard package manager npm works. We will then go on to learn about other package managers, such as Yarn and pnpm. They all promise some advantages in terms of usability, performance, or reliability. We will take a deeper look at them to understand these advantages and who might benefit from using each of the different package managers. Finally, we’ll also look at alternatives.

This chapter will help you to use third-party...

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