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.

About this Book

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

About the Authors

The authors are architects and engineering managers.

Michael Mikowski

has worked on many commercial SPAs and a platform that processes over 100 billion requests per year.

Josh Powell

has built some of the most heavily trafficked sites on the web.

Table of Contents

PART 1: INTRODUCING SPAS

Our first single page application

Reintroducing JavaScript

PART 2: SPA CLIENT

Develop the Shell

Add feature modules

Build the Model

Finish the Model and Data modules

PART 3: THE SPA SERVER

The web server

The server database

Readying our SPA for production

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