Clean Code in JavaScript

Bundling and serving

In the land of JavaScript, around the same time as AMD and CommonJS started to emerge, the rise of command-line bundlers and build tools was also on the rise. This gave us the ability to bundle large dependency graphs into singular files that could be loaded with a single <script>. The proliferation of build tools such as GruntJS and gulp.js meant that, slowly, the JavaScript we wrote as programmers could be oriented to cleanliness and comprehension and not the loading idiosyncrasies of browsers. We could also begin to take advantage of spin-off languages and subsets such as CoffeeScript, TypeScript, and JSX. Such JavaScript adaptations could easily be compiled and then bundled into fully operable JavaScript sent down ...