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Node.js 8 the Right Way
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Node.js 8 the Right Way

by Jim Wilson
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 22m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Chapter 8Creating a Beautiful User Experience

APIs and command-line tools are excellent for developers to use and for systems to talk to each other. But at some point, if you’re going to have nondevelopers use your software, you’ll need a more friendly and beautiful user experience.

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to set up a web front end for the APIs you developed across the preceding chapters. The bulk of this work is around installing and configuring webpack, a popular bundler for producing web-based UI deliverables. Doing this, we’ll cover the following aspects of developing a front end for Node.js:

Node.js Core

In previous examples in the book, we’ve used Node.js modules that had runtime dependencies and development dependencies. In ...

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