Wrapping Up

In this chapter, you learned how to set up a front-end project for Node.js using webpack. To style the application, you used Twitter’s Bootstrap framework.

Rather than write front-end JavaScript code to the lowest common denominator among browsers, you installed and configured TypeScript to transpile and type-check your code. Knowing how to do this, you’re now able to explore using more TypeScript features in your Node.js and front-end code.

For handling synchronous and asynchronous code flows, we doubled down on async functions paired with Promise-generating methods. You learned how to issue asynchronous HTTP requests using the fetch method.

We explored the vulnerabilities inherent in generating HTML naively with JavaScript template ...

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