The JavaScript Software Factory

A talk I gave at ForwardJS March 1, 2017.

1. The JavaScript SOFTWARE FACTORY ForwardJS March 1, 2017 Image: Jackson Jost
2. Chris Castle Developer Advocate @crc Image: Ferdinand Stöhr
3. THUNDER SNOW
4. Image: Kalle K
5. Programming is easy. Software development is hard. Image: Vladimir Chuchadeev
6. Programming is easy. Image: Vladimir Chuchadeev
7. Software development is hard. Image: Vladimir Chuchadeev
8. You want to know what makes it even harder? Image: Markus Spiske
26. Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Geniuses remove it. - Alan Perlis
27. Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. - E.W. Dijkstra
30. SOME SIMPLIFYING TIPS
32. Stop spending time on the bottom two layers.
34. No global modules
35. 1 { 2 "name": "js-software-factory-samples", 3 "version": "1.0.0", 4 "description": "Sample codez!", 5 "main": "index.js", 6 "author": "Chris Castle", 7 "license": "MIT", 8 "dependencies": { 9 "left-pad": "^1.1.3" 10 }, 11 "devDependencies": { 12 "gulp": "^3.9.1" 13 } 14 }
37. The Twelve-Factor App
38. https://12factor.net
40. Use yarn
41. - Predictability - Security - Performance
42. Deploy a lot
44. Make testing automatic
47. Logging
48. winston bunyan log4js morgan
49. Debugging
50. 1 const debug = require('debug')('http') 2 const http = require('http') 3 4 http.createServer((req, res) => { 5 debug(`${req.method} ${req.url}`) 6 res.end('hello\n') 7 }).listen(3000, () => { 8 debug('listening'); 9 })
51. no debug output
52. debug output
53. Thank you Image: SpaceX