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Full Stack JavaScript Development With MEAN
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Full Stack JavaScript Development With MEAN

by Colin J Ihrig, Adam Bretz
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
6h 24m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 21Task Runners

In the examples we’ve shown in many of the Angular chapters, all the JavaScript code lies in a single file. There are several benefits of working with a single file. The browser only needs to download one file containing all of our JavaScript, and can reuse a cached version everywhere on the site. It also reduces download order issues because everything is contained in a single file with the code in the proper, logical order. The entire block of code can be wrapped in a function expression that keeps the contents out of the global namespace. Finally, minification can reduce the browser download size, sometimes as much as 80%. The downside of working with a single file is the maintenance, especially when working within a ...

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