《JavaScript Application Design》简介：

Choosing the right libraries and frameworks for your large-scale JavaScript applications isn't enough. Successful web development requires a more disciplined approach to application architecture and development. The Build First philosophy of designing for clean, well-structured, and testable applications before you write a single line of code ensures that you'll start out right and end up with applications that are easy to maintain, scale, and refactor.

JavaScript Application Design: A Build First approach introduces JavaScript developers to techniques that will improve the quality of their software as well as their web development workflow. You'll begin by learning how to establish build processes that are appropriate for JavaScript-driven development. Then, you'll walk through best practices for productive day-to-day development, like running tasks when your code changes, deploying applications with a single command, and monitoring the state of your application once it's in production. Along the way, you'll gain insights into designing well-rounded architectures for applications running on the Node.js platform.

《JavaScript Application Design》目录：

Part 1 Build processes
1 Introduction to Build First
1.1 When things go wrong
1.2 Planning ahead with Build First
1.3 Build processes
1.4 Handling application complexity and design
1.5 Diving into Build First
1.6 Summary
2 Composing build tasks and flows
2.1 Introducing Grunt
2.2 Preprocessing and static asset optimization
2.3 Setting up code integrity
2.4 Writing your first build task
2.5 Case study: database tasks
2.6 Summary
3 Mastering environments and the development workflow
3.1 Application environments
3.2 Configuring environments
3.3 Automating tedious first-time setup tasks
3.4 Working in continuous development
3.5 Summary
4 Release, deployment, and monitoring
4.1 Releasing your application
4.2 Predeployment operations
4.3 Deploying to Heroku
4.4 Continuous integration
4.5 Monitoring and diagnostics
4.6 Summary
Part 2 Managing complexity
5 Embracing modularity and dependency management
5.1 Working with code encapsulation
5.2 JavaScript modules
5.3 Using dependency management
5.4 Understanding package management
5.5 Harmony: a glimpse of ECMAScript 6
5.6 Summary
6 Understanding asynchronous flow control methods in JavaScript
6.1 Using callbacks
6.2 Using the async library
6.3 Making Promises
6.4 Understanding events
6.5 Glimpse of the future: ES6 generators
6.6 Summary
7 Leveraging the Model-View-Controller
7.1 jQuery isn’t enough
7.2 Model-View-Controller in JavaScript
7.3 Introduction to Backbone
7.4 Case study: the shopping list
7.5 Backbone and Rendr: server/client shared rendering
7.6 Summary
8 Testing JavaScript components
8.1 JavaScript testing crash course
8.2 Testing in the browser
8.3 Case study: unit testing the MVC shopping list
8.4 Automating Tape tests
8.5 Integration, visual, and performance testing
8.6 Summary
9 REST API design and layered service architectures
9.1 Avoiding API design pitfalls
9.2 Learning REST API design
9.3 Implementing layered service architectures
9.4 Consuming a REST API on the client side
9.5 Summary
appendix A: Modules in Node.js
appendix B: Introduction to Grunt
appendix C: Picking your build tool
appendix D: JavaScript code quality guide
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