Summary
In this chapter, we explored the innovative and fast-moving world of Universal JavaScript. Universal JavaScript just opened up a lot of new opportunities in the field of web development, but it is still quite a fresh and immature field.
In this chapter, we focused on introducing all the basics of this subject, discussing topics such as component-oriented user interfaces, universal rendering, universal routing, and universal data retrieval. Throughout the process, we built a very simple application that demonstrates how to combine together all these concepts. We also added to our belt a new chain of powerful tools and libraries, such as Webpack and React.
Even though we discussed a lot of topics, we barely scratched the surface of this wide ...
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