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Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

You're reading from  Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477321
Pages 764 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Daniel Li Daniel Li
Profile icon Daniel Li

Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. The Importance of Good Code 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 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Consolidating commands with npm scripts


It's troublesome to have to type rm -rf dist/ && npx babel src -d dist each time you want to build your project. Instead, we should use npm scripts to consolidate this command into a simpler one.

In your package.json file, add a new build sub-property to the scripts property, and set it to a string representing the command we want to run:

"scripts": {
 "build": "rm -rf dist/ && babel src -d dist",
 "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
}

Now, instead of typing  rm -rf dist/ && npx babel src -d dist, you can just type yarn run build, or npm run build—much less cumbersome! By adding this script into package.json, it allows you to share this with other developers, so everyone can benefit from this convenience.

We can also create a serve script, which will build our application and then run it:

"scripts": {
  "build": "rm -rf dist/ && babel src -d dist",
  "serve": "yarn run build && node dist...
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