#JavaScript Development Environment

This is a generic JavaScript development environment that Cory House builds from scratch in his "Building a JavaScript Development Environment" on Pluralsight. This isn't tied to any specific JS framework.

Get Started

1. Install Node 6. Need to run multiple versions of Node? Use nvm or nvm-windows
2. Clone this repository. - git clone https://github.com/coryhouse/javascript-development-environment.git or download the zip
3. Make sure you're in the directory you just created. - cd javascript-development-environment
4. Install Node Packages. - npm install
5. Run the app. - npm start -s This will run the automated build process, start up a webserver, and open the application in your default browser. When doing development with this kit, this command will continue watching files all your files. Every time you hit save the code is rebuilt, linting runs, and tests run automatically. Note: The -s flag is optional. It enables silent mode which suppresses unnecessary messages during the build.
6. Having issues? See below.

Having Issues? Try these things first:

1. Run npm install - If you forget to do this, you'll see this: babel-node: command not found.
2. Make sure you're running the latest version of Node. Or, use Node 6.9.1 if you're having issues on Windows. Node 7 has issues on some Windows machines.
3. Make sure files with names that begin with a dot (.babelrc, .editorconfig, .eslintrc) are copied to the project directory root. This is easy to overlook if you copy this repository manually.
4. Don't run the project from a symbolic link. It will cause issues with file watches.
5. Having linting issues? Delete any .eslintrc that you're storing in your user directory. Also, disable any ESLint plugin / custom rules that you've enabled within your editor. These will conflict with the ESLint rules defined in the course.
6. Nothing above work? Delete your node_modules folder and re-run npm install.

###Development Dependencies

Dependency	Use
babel-cli	Babel Command line interface
babel-core	Babel Core for transpiling the new JavaScript to old
babel-loader	Adds Babel support to Webpack
babel-preset-latest	Babel preset for running all the latest standardized JavaScript features
babel-register	Register Babel to transpile our Mocha tests
cheerio	Supports querying DOM with jQuery like syntax - Useful in testing and build process for HTML manipulation
cross-env	Cross-environment friendly way to handle environment variables
css-loader	Add CSS support to Webpack
eslint	Lints JavaScript
eslint-plugin-import	Advanced linting of ES6 imports
eslint-watch	Add watch functionality to ESLint
eventsource-polyfill	Polyfill to support hot reloading in IE
expect	Assertion library for use with Mocha
express	Serves development and production builds
extract-text-webpack-plugin	Extracts CSS into separate file for production build
file-loader	Adds file loading support to Webpack
jsdom	In-memory DOM for testing
mocha	JavaScript testing library
npm-run-all	Display results of multiple commands on single command line
open	Open app in default browser
rimraf	Delete files
style-loader	Add Style support to Webpack
url-loader	Add url loading support to Webpack
webpack	Bundler with plugin system and integrated development server
webpack-dev-middleware	Adds middleware support to webpack
webpack-hot-middleware	Adds hot reloading to webpack