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Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js

You're reading from   Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js Build an interactive and full-featured web application from scratch using Node.js and MongoDB

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783987306
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Welcome to JavaScript in the Full Stack 2. Getting Up and Running FREE CHAPTER 3. Node and MongoDB Basics 4. Writing an Express.js Server 5. Dynamic HTML with Handlebars 6. Controllers and View Models 7. Persisting Data with MongoDB 8. Creating a RESTful API 9. Testing Your Code 10. Deploying with Cloud-based Services 11. Single Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks 12. Popular Node.js Web Frameworks Index

Frontend development tools

Because of the sophisticated nature of single page applications, there exists a growing suite of tools a frontend developer needs to be familiar with to manage many day-to-day, and sometimes minute-to-minute tasks.

Automated build task managers

A build tool is just what it sounds like, a tool used to build your application. When a frontend developer creates and maintains an application, there could be a number of tasks that need to be repeated literally every time a file is changed and saved. Using a build tool, a developer can free up time and mental resources by offloading the responsibility to an automated task manager that can watch files for changes and execute any number of tasks needed. These tasks might include any number of the following:

  • Concatenation
  • Minification
  • Uglification and obfuscation
  • Manipulation
  • Dependency installation and preparation
  • Custom script firing
  • Concurrent watchers
  • Server launching
  • Test automation

Some of the more popular build tools today include...

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