Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

Summary

In this chapter, we outlined how to manage your project's version history using Git. We started by understanding the different states in Git and practicing some basic Git commands, and using them to commit, branch, and merge our changes. We then set up a remote repository on GitHub, which allowed us to share our code and collaborate with others.

The workflow and conventions used here are opinionated, and you may come across different patterns in your workplace. There is no right way to use Git, only wrong ways, and the rules we used here are not perfect. For example, in the Driessen model, once a feature is merged into dev, it will be hard to extract it. Therefore, we have to be careful not to merge in features that are not meant ...