Frontend

Setting up a server-side for an app can feel like a really intimidating thing, especially for someone new to web development. Let’s forego the frameworks and other fancy stuff, and just get down to the details that really matter.

If you’ve used Angular in production, you’ve probably learned the importance of annotating your dependencies when using a minifier like Uglify: when parameter names get mangled, Angular’s implicit annotation feature breaks. The ng-annotate package does a great job at alleviating us of this responsibility, but it may need a little hint when you’re using something like Browserify to organize your code as CommonJS modules.