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JavaScript and JSON Essentials

You're reading from JavaScript and JSON Essentials Build light weight, scalable, and faster web applications with the power of JSON

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788624701

Length 226 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Angular

Concepts

Web Programming

Authors (2):

Sai S Sriparasa

Bruno Joseph D'mello

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with JSON

2. The JSON Structures FREE CHAPTER

3. AJAX Requests with JSON

4. Cross-Domain Asynchronous Requests

5. Debugging JSON

6. Building the Carousel Application

7. Alternate Implementations of JSON

8. Introduction to hapi.js

9. Storing JSON Documents in MongoDB

10. Configuring the Task Runner Using JSON

11. JSON for Real-Time and Distributed Data

12. Case Studies in JSON

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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What is a task runner?

In the context of web scripting, task runners are the libraries that help us to perform functionalities with ease and minimum effort. Task runners can help in doing the following:

Minifying your client application JavaScript file to increase overall performance
Configuring your app modules selection at build time
Creating a build that only comprises a single index.html file, CSS, assets, and minified and uglified JavaScript on a single command
Testing BDD (behavior-driven data) assertions

In this chapter, we are going to test our APIs individually using the default assertion library of Node, and we are going to automate them using the gulp task runner library. In Chapter 9, Storing JSON Documents in MongoDB, we created two APIs in our hapi application; now we are going to test them. Before creating the tasks, let's learn about gulp.js, what it is used for, and what its capabilities are.

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Authors (2)

Sai S Sriparasa

Sai S Sriparasa

Sai Srinivas Sriparasa is a web developer and an open source evangelist living in the Stamford area. Sai was the lead developer for building Dr. Oz's website, and has led teams for companies such as Sprint Nextel, West Interactive, and Apple. Sai's repertoire includes JavaScript, PHP, Python, HTML5, responsive web development, ASP.NET, C#, and Silverlight.

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Joseph D'mello

Joseph D'mello

Bruno Joseph D'mello is proactively working at Truckx as a full stack developer. He is a JavaScript enthusiast and loves working with open source communities. He possesses more than 6 years' experience in web development. Bruno follows kaizen and enjoys the freedom of architecting new things at work. He is socially active via coaching in web technologies and participating in other research projects and meetups. When not engaged with technology, Bruno likes to spend quality time traveling with family and friends.

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