有效使用Node.js库

Question

I just got started with Node.js and found that we need to RequireJS library on the backend. Also, we need to include it in view if we want to use it there. So, if I want to use d3 to manipulate some data I will specify require in backend and send the result only to front end? Or should I include it in both server side and HTML page? So is it redundant that using same library on both sides?

For jQuery: I did

npm install jquery

For Bootstrap:

npm install bootstrap

Now as the version does not match, I am including different jQuery in HTML file. Again I added d3 from scripts. Although it works, is this the proper way to design a Node.js app?

Answer 1

You do not want to use npm for the client side part of the application (bootstrap included). I would recommend installing bower.

npm install bower bower init

Create a .bowerrc file and put in it { "directory" : "public/components"}

bower install bootstrap --save

Include the script in the html file.