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I agree it's important for book about client dev to be backend agnostic , and too many books on js clientside frameworks contains unnecessary parts about server
by camus 14y ago
I agree it's important for book about client dev to be backend agnostic , and too many books on js clientside frameworks contains unnecessary parts about server side development with nodeJS.
However, nodeJS makes it easy to quickly build a thin backend for the purpose of making the frontend work quickly, furthermore , nodeJS is becoming a tool that is really necessary in frontend development , you often need a buildstep before deploying code on the server ( minif , concat , ... ) , so a little chapiter on node makes sense in my opinion ;)
- oinksoft 14y agonodeJS is becoming a tool that is really necessary in frontend development you often need a buildstep before deploying code on the server ( minif , concat , ... ) Certainly there are minifiers like Uglify that are Node.js packages, but I wouldn't go so far as to claim that Node.js is now "necessary" for frontend development. I'd bet an awful lot that YUI Compressor, Google Closure Compiler, even things like jsmin.c are being used much more than similar Node.js-based tools.
- camus 14y agoI bet people doing some javascript aint going to install java just to minify their script, nor ant to manage tasks , nor maven to fetch packages when you get everything with node+npm. If you do testing , and you should , you need node to run tests.
- aioprisan 14y agoyui compressor is deprecated