Learning Web App Development: Build Quickly with Proven JavaScript Techniques - Softcover

Purewal, Semmy

 
9781449370190: Learning Web App Development: Build Quickly with Proven JavaScript Techniques
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1449370195 ISBN 13: 9781449370190
Publisher: O′Reilly, 2014

Synopsis

Grasp the fundamentals of web application development by building a simple database-backed app from scratch, using HTML, JavaScript, and other open source tools. Through hands-on tutorials, this practical guide shows inexperienced web app developers how to create a user interface, write a server, build client-server communication, and use a cloud-based service to deploy the application.

Each chapter includes practice problems, full examples, and mental models of the development workflow. Ideal for a college-level course, this book helps you get started with web app development by providing you with a solid grounding in the process.

  • Set up a basic workflow with a text editor, version control system, and web browser
  • Structure a user interface with HTML, and include styles with CSS
  • Use JQuery and JavaScript to add interactivity to your application
  • Link the client to the server with AJAX, JavaScript objects, and JSON
  • Learn the basics of server-side programming with Node.js
  • Store data outside your application with Redis and MongoDB
  • Share your application by uploading it to the cloud with CloudFoundry
  • Get basic tips for writing maintainable code on both client and server

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About the Author

Semmy Purewal is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. His passion for engaging communities through technology led him to co-found Free IT Athens, an all-volunteer non-profit organization in Athens, GA. Through this and a decade of teaching computer science at the college level, he has discovered some of the best approaches to teaching complex technical topics to non-technical people. Outside of community organizing and teaching, he has extensive experience as a software engineer with a diverse group of clients that include startups, non-profits and research labs.

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Publisher
O′Reilly
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1449370195
ISBN 13 
9781449370190
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
303

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