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Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

Node Ecosystem, TDD, CI/CD

Application development in the Node.js ecosystem, including the writing of modular code using CommonJS modules, writing tests to assert code quality, setting up and working in a "Continuous Integration" environment (Github Actions).

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to

Describe and Define

  • Node and the V8 Engine

Execute

  • Setup a Node.js Package using npm
  • Create CommonJS modules
  • Create a simple express server
  • See passing tests via GitHub actions (CI)
  • Deploy to Heroku using CD

Today's Outline

Notes

Importing and Exporting Modules

If one module exports a function or an object ...

// person.js
const person = {};

person.walk = function() {
  return 'walking';
}

module.exports = person;

Another module can import and use that function or object

const human = require('./person.js'))
console.log( human.walk() );  // prints 'walking'

CI/CD - Continuous Integration and Deployment

In your lab today, you'll be doing a full "professional" deployment using 2 branches, PR's, and a continuous process to get your code deployed.

You will repeat this process for every server based lab moving forward. Keep these notes (and the lab steps) handy for future reference

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