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Modern JavaScript Applications

You're reading from   Modern JavaScript Applications Keep abreast of the practical uses of modern JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785881442
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Narayan Prusty Narayan Prusty
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Breaking into Microservices Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Coupon Site 3. Communication between Browsers in Real Time 4. Building a Chatroulette 5. Bidirectional Communication in Real Time 6. Building a Live Score Site 7. Functional Reactive Programming 8. Building an Advanced Profile Search Widget 9. New Features of Bootstrap 4 10. Building User Interfaces Using React 11. Building an RSS Reader Using React and Flux 12. New Features of Angular 2 13. Building a Search Engine Template Using AngularJS 2 14. Securing and Scaling Node.js Applications Index

Creating the RSS feed reader

The RSS feed reader we will create will let you add feed URLs, view a list of added URLs, and view the content of each feed URL. We will be storing the URLs in HTML5 local storage.

Setting up the project directories and files

In the exercise files of this chapter, you will find two directories: Initial and Final. Final contains the final source code of the application whereas Initial contains the files to help you quickly get started with building the application.

In the Initial directory, you will find app.js, package.json, and a public directory containing files to be served to the frontend. The app.js file will contain backend code. Currently, app.js and package.json contain no code.

We will put our HTML code in public/html/index.html, and in the public/js/index.js file, we will place our frontend JavaScript code, that is, React code.

Let's first build the backend, after which we will build the frontend.

Building the backend

First, let's download the packages...

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