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coryhouse/javascript-development-environment
JavaScript development environment discussed in "Building a JavaScript Development Environment" on Pluralsight
A companion repo for a Pluralsight course on setting up a JavaScript toolchain from scratch — Babel, Webpack, ESLint, Mocha, and a mock JSON API server wired together with npm scripts. It's a teaching artifact, not a starter kit anyone should actually use today.
The npm-scripts-first approach (npm-run-all, eslint-watch) is still a valid pattern that avoids Gulp/Grunt complexity. The mock data layer using json-schema-faker + json-server is a genuinely useful technique for frontend development without a real backend. The webpack config is split dev/prod, which is the right structure. CI is wired up with both Travis and AppVeyor.
Everything here targets Node 6 and Babel 6, which are ancient — babel-preset-latest was deprecated in 2017 in favour of @babel/preset-env. Last commit was 2021, so it has had five years of ecosystem drift with no updates. webpack-md5-hash and extract-text-webpack-plugin are both abandoned packages. Anyone cloning this today will hit npm audit warnings on day one and spend hours untangling peer dependency conflicts before writing a single line of real code.