Pro MERN Stack: Full Stack Web App Development with Mongo, Express, React, and Node

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Vasan SubramanianPro MERN Stackhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4391-6_8

8. Modularization and Webpack

Vasan Subramanian¹ 

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Bangalore, Karnataka, India

 

We started to get organized in the previous chapter by changing the architecture and adding checks for coding standards and best practices. In this chapter, we’ll take this a little further by splitting the code into multiple files and adding tools to ease the process of development. We’ll use Webpack to help us split front-end code into component-based files, inject code into the browser incrementally, and refresh the browser automatically on front-end code changes.

Some of you may find this chapter not worth your time because it is not making any progress on the real ...