Single Page Web Applications

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In Single Page Web Applications you’ll learn to build modern browser-based apps that take advantage of stronger client platforms and more predictable bandwidth. You’ll learn the SPA design approach, and then start exploring new techniques like structured JavaScript and responsive design. And you’ll learn how to capitalize on trends like server-side JavaScript and NoSQL data stores, as well as new frameworks that make JavaScript more manageable and testable as a first-class language.

If your website is a jumpy collection of linked pages, you are behind. Single page web applications are your next step: pushing UI rendering and business logic to the browser and communicating with the server only to synchronize data, they provide a smooth user experience, much like a native application. But, SPAs can be hard to develop, manage, and test.

Single Page Web Applications shows how your team can easily design, test, maintain, and extend sophisticated SPAs using JavaScript end-to-end, without getting locked into a framework. Along the way, you’ll develop advanced HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills, and use JavaScript as the language of the web server and the database.

This book assumes basic knowledge of web development. No experience with SPAs is required.

What’s Inside

Design, build, and test a full-stack SPA
Best-in-class tools like jQuery, TaffyDB, Node.js, and MongoDB
Real-time web with web sockets and Socket.IO
Touch controls for tablets and smartphones
Common SPA design mistakes

Table of Contents
Part 1: Introducing SPAs
Chapter 1. Our first single page application
Chapter 2. Reintroducing JavaScript

Part 2: The SPA client
Chapter 3. Develop the Shell
Chapter 4. Add feature modules
Chapter 5. Build the Model
Chapter 6. Finish the Model and Data modules

Part 3: The SPA server
Chapter 7. The web server
Chapter 8. The server database
Chapter 9. Readying our SPA for production

Appendix A. JavaScript coding standard
Appendix B. Testing an SPA