Learning Path: Efficient JavaScript Application Development

Course details

Do you want to make efficient use of your time by quickly performing tasks? How will you do it? Your answer is Grunt!

Grunt will help you automate repetitive tasks such as minification, compilation, unit testing, linting, and more.

Grunt is everywhere. From JavaScript projects in jQuery to Twitter Bootstrap, everyone's using Grunt to convert code, run tests, and produce distributions for production.  

We will begin this Learning Path with an advanced configuration and customization of the Grunt environment, focusing on practical examples of creating a customized Grunt environment that will support large-scale web development.

Packt's Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.

Half way through this course, you will gain a deep understanding to create server-side applications with the most popular Node.js framework.

Finally, we will focus on creating a data-intensive application with MongoDB, use AngularJS to create a frontend application, and learn to utilize Bootstrap to create a truly responsive web app.  

The goal of this course is to make your application development process smoother and efficient. 

About The Author

Bertrand Chevrier

Bertrand Chevrier is a professional JavaScript developer with 10 years of experience in large-scale software development and architecture. He uses Grunt every day for his professional and personal projects. As a Grunt plugin author, he's part of the Grunt community and his work is widely used. He also used to teach Grunt to his team mates and speaks about Grunt in conferences and user groups.

Bertrand is also a strong believer and advocate of free and open source software. By day he works for OAT SA, the company behind TAO, the open source e-testing platform, where he's in charge of frontend development and architecture, and by night he contributes to open source software.

Fernando Monteiro

Fernando Monteiro is a full-stack engineer, speaker, and open source contributor. He has built and made some of his personal projects open source, such as Responsive Boilerplate, Frontend Boilerplate, Angm-Generator, and TrelloMetrics, written in AngularJS, Node.js, Less, and SASS.

With around 16 years of experience in information technology, his current focus is on web and mobile JavaScript applications. He has a strong understanding and experience with all phases of the software engineering life cycle, including source control, design, build/release, and automated testing.

He has worked as a manager of e-commerce and a UX designer for various companies and products, including mobile applications.

When not programming, Fernando enjoys riding Harley Davidson bikes, making his own

beer and watching movies with his family.