Chapter 2
Optimizing and Bundling
IN THIS CHAPTER
Creating an automated build script
Using a module bundler
Adding functionality to your build tool
Migrating a vanilla JavaScript app to ReactJS
“If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.”
—DONALD KNUTH
Whether you work by yourself or as part of a team of developers, one of the most important parts of your development environment is your automated build tool. Building an application is the process of optimizing and bundling your code to prepare the application for deployment and use by actual people, which, of course, is the end goal of learning about JavaScript programming.
In this chapter, you find out how to put together the tools and scripts necessary to go from a development environment to a production environment.
Automating Your Build Script
The systems development life cycle (SDLC) is a series of phases used by software developers since the 1960s to build applications. These are the phases of the SDLC:
- Analysis
- Design
- Development
- Testing
- Deployment
- Maintenance
Because this is a book about programming, nearly ...
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