Mantra: Actively Automate
In the field of web development, bugs stemming from hardware failure are truly rare. If something goes awry, then in Hal 9000’s famous words: “It must be human error.” The task of building a bug-free website, then, is about minimizing human error. And with web-based applications growing ever more complex, we need all the help we can get. It’s not enough to have good habits. If it can be done by software, software can do it more reliably than you can. So keep seeking out new ways to entrust development tasks to software. “Actively automate.”
In this final chapter, we’ve gone through some of the tools that have arisen in the last few years to help JavaScript developers with common tasks like running tests, linting, and ...
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