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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

Building Web Apps with Bundlers

In the previous chapter, we covered an important set of auxiliary tooling – linters and formatters. While code quality is important, the undoubtedly most important aspect of every project is what is shipped and used by the customer. This is the area where a special kind of tooling – called bundlers – shines.

A bundler is a tool that understands and processes source code to produce files that can be placed on a web server and are ready to be consumed by web browsers. It takes HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and related files into consideration to make them more efficient and readable. In this process, a bundler would merge, split, minify, and even translate code from one standard such as ES2020 into another standard such as ES5.

Today, bundlers are no longer nice to have, but necessarily used for most projects directly or indirectly. Pretty much every web framework offers tooling that is built upon a bundler. Often, the challenge is...

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