Full Stack JavaScript Strategies

Chapter 1. Kicking Off the Project

Welcome to the team! If you’re like most readers of this book, you’re a frontend or backend developer, but you would like to be a senior-level full stack developer. Now imagine fast-forwarding to that point in your career: you’re a new, senior, full stack JavaScript developer. That means you’re responsible for helping drive the technical direction of the project and coordinating efforts across different teams to get software to users. Your task is to start a greenfield app, a project you get to build from scratch with no existing code, based on designs and conversations with a number of teams.

Let’s break down what you’ll learn in this chapter:

• How to work with several other teams to fully define features

• How to take a design and break it into small, actionable tasks

• How to determine the data you’ll need to work with

The Project You’ll Build

The project you’ll be building as you work through the book will be an ecommerce platform that has access to a lot of user data, including some personally identifiable information (PII), and that connects with multiple third-party services. You and your team have been tasked with creating a user dashboard so that customers can make purchases, see information about their order history and other actions they have taken, and interact with their digital purchases, like ebooks. They’ll also be able to take different actions based on their permissions within the app.

You’re starting with a fresh Product ...