JavaScript Frameworks for Modern Web Development

Sufyan bin Uzayr is a web developer with over 10 years of experience in the industry. He specializes in a wide variety of technologies, including JavaScript, WordPress, Drupal, PHP, and UNIX/Linux shell and server management, and is the author of four previous books. Sufyan is the CEO of Parakozm, a design and development consultancy firm that offers customized solutions to a global clientele. He is also the CTO at Samurai Servers, a server management and security company catering mainly to enterprise-scale audience. He takes a keen interest in technology, politics, literature, history and sports, and in his spare time he enjoys teaching coding and English to students.

Enrich your software design skills and take a guided tour of the wild, vast, and untamed frontier that is JavaScript development. Especially useful for frontend developers, this revision includes specific chapters on React and VueJS, as well as an updated one on Angular. To help you get the most of your new skills, each chapter also has a "further reading" section.

This book will serve as an introduction to both new and well established libraries and frameworks, such as Angular, VueJS, React, Grunt, Yeoman, RequireJS, Browserify, Knockout, Kraken, Async.js, Underscore, and Lodash. It also covers utilities that have gained popular traction and support from seasoned developers and tools applicable to the entire development stack, both client- and server-side.

While no single book can possibly cover every JavaScript library of value, JavaScript Frameworks for Modern Web Development focuses on incredibly useful libraries and frameworks that production software uses. You will be treated to detailed analyses and sample code for tools that manage dependencies, structure code in a modular fashion, automate repetitive build tasks, create specialized servers, structure client side applications, facilitate horizontal scaling, and interacting with disparate data stores.

• Work with a variety of JavaScript frameworks, such as Angular, Vue, React, RequireJS, Knockout, and more
  
• Choose the right framework for different types of projects
  
• Employ the appropriate libraries and tools in your projects
  
• Discover useful JavaScript development tools such as Grunt, Yeoman, Lodash, etc.
  

Part I. Development Tools.- 1. Grunt.- 2. Yeoman.- 3. PM2.- Part II. Module Loaders.- 4. RequireJS.- 5. Browserify.- Part III. Client-Side Frameworks.- 6. Knockout.- 7. Angular.- Part IV. Server-Side Frameworks.- 8. Kraken.- Part V. Managing Database Interaction.- 9. Mongoose.- 10. Knex and Bookshelf.- Part VI. Managing Control Flow.-11. Async.js.- Part VII. Further Useful Libraries.-12. Underscore and Lodash.- Part VIII. Front-end Development.- 13. React.- 14. Vue.js.