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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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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

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 Our Code

In the previous chapter, we followed a TDD workflow and implemented the first endpoint of our API—the Create User endpoint. We wrote our End-to-End (E2E) tests in Gherkin, ran them using the Cucumber test runner, and used them to drive development. Everything works, but all the code is contained within a single, monolithic file (src/index.js); this is not modular and makes our project hard to maintain, especially as we add more endpoints. Therefore, in this chapter, we will be separating our application code into smaller modules. This will allow us to write unit and integration tests for them in Chapter 8, Writing Unit/Integration Tests.

By following this chapter, you will be able to do the following:

  • Break down large blocks of code into smaller modules
  • Define and validate JavaScript objects...
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