Chapter 1
Building from Scratch
IN THIS CHAPTER
Recognizing why you need a build tool
Introducing npm
Recognizing the parts of package.json
Installing a dev server
Building a script with modules
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
—CARL SAGAN
If you've worked through Book 3, Book 4, and Book 5, you know how to write JavaScript code using popular JavaScript frameworks. Until now, you've been mostly protected from the tools that check, compile, and open your applications in a browser. Rather than spend a lot of time configuring these tools, you've been using a single tool, Vite, that wraps around and configures everything for you.
But, just as anyone who drives a car can benefit from knowing what goes on under the hood, a whole world of programs and tools wait for you "under the hood" of modern JavaScript development. Knowing how to tinker with these tools makes you a better developer.
In this chapter, I start from scratch and help you ...
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