June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
264 pages
8h 13m
English
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JavaScript build tools are, sadly, still at their infancy. A range of products compete to solve the tasks of application assembly: running unit tests, performing linting (ensuring that your JavaScript code is clean), minifying source code, and packaging your application.
The problem with the existing tools is that they tend to be hard to use and give error messages that are hard to understand, even for developers. In addition, the JavaScript community has yet to agree on a standard for managing application dependency ...