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Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

You're reading from   Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications Learn to build and deploy robust JavaScript applications using Cucumber, Mocha, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477321
Length 764 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniel Li Daniel Li
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Preface 1. The Importance of Good Code FREE CHAPTER 2. The State of JavaScript 3. Managing Version History with Git 4. Setting Up Development Tools 5. Writing End-to-End Tests 6. Storing Data in Elasticsearch 7. Modularizing Our Code 8. Writing Unit/Integration Tests 9. Designing Our API 10. Deploying Our Application on a VPS 11. Continuous Integration 12. Security – Authentication and Authorization 13. Documenting Our API 14. Creating UI with React 15. E2E Testing in React 16. Managing States with Redux 17. Migrating to Docker 18. Robust Infrastructure with Kubernetes 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Modularizing React

But for now, we must solve another pressing issue - our code is not very modular. Everything is defined inside a single <script> tag. Not only is this hard to read, but it is also not maintainable. We can't define every component in one file!

Furthermore, we are including libraries using <script> tags. Because some libraries depend on others (for example, react-dom depends on react), we must manually ensure our scripts are loaded in the right order.

We have already looked at CommonJS and ES6 modules when we discussed server-side modules. However, we must consider other factors when using modules on client-side code, such as:

  • The size of each module. Dependencies are downloaded before the application is run. On the server, the application is only initialized once, after which it will keep running for a long...
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