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Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development
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Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development
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First published: October 2016
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Philip Klauzinski is a senior frontend developer specializing in JavaScript Single Page Application (SPA) development. He has over 20 years of experience in web design and web development and is a leading expert in web application development, client-side JavaScript, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Philip has worked as a frontend developer across multiple industries, including consumer e-commerce, business-to-business e-commerce, big data, Web hosting, direct marketing, domain name services (DNS), and manufacturing.
I would like to thank my Mom and Dad for always stressing the importance of education in my life, not just institutional education, but more importantly, the pursuance of self-education. My own interest in technology and software from a young age has driven my subsequent, self-taught approach to my career. As a result, I love what I do for a living, and I have been able to shape my professional life around the things in which I am truly interested. I am inherently driven to learn more every day, and I believe that is what has led to my success. Thank you, Mom and Dad!
John Moore has been working in web development for 20 years. He is an industry expert in JavaScript and HTML5. He has developed award-winning web applications and worked and consulted for Digital Equipment Corporation, Ernst & Young, Wachovia Bank, and Fidelity Investments. Having focused his early career on frontend web development, he helped usher in responsive web design and Single Page Applications in his roles in development and architecture. Most recently, he led Full Stack development in JavaScript, serving as CTO of a Maine-based startup company.
I would like to thank my wife, Dr. Myra Salapare, and daughters, Mila Moore and Sophia Moore, for all of their support. I would also like to thank Andrea Shiflet, Erin Benner, and Lauren Grousd for their tremendous help.
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Ciro Artigot is currently working as an IT manager at ECODES, an Spanish foundation that works for the welfare of all people within the limits of our planet.
He has developed websites for over 15 years. He is a Full Stack developer and CMS expert and is addicted to Joomla, He has worked for 10 years in open source GNU projects, mainly in LAMP .
For the last few years, he has been investigating and working with SPA in MEAN environments.
I would like to thank Pampa, Diego,and Hugo, for giving me the time to review this book, and my parents and brothers, for making it possible for me to devote myself to what I like bestādevelop
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Created in 1995 by Brendan Eich of Netscape, JavaScript has gone from being a toy scripting language used only in browsers to being one of the most popular languages in the world for full-stack development. With the introduction of Node.js, built on top of Chromeās V8 JavaScript Engine, developers are now able to build powerful and performant applications using JavaScript. With the addition of MongoDB, a modern NoSQL database, applications can utilize JavaScript at every tier.
Many popular web applications are implemented, partially or in whole, as single-page applications, or SPAs. With SPAs, users load a single web page, and that page is updated dynamically in response to user interaction or incoming server data. The advantage is an application experience that is smoother, replicates native application interaction, and may require less network traffic and server load.
The MEAN stack is a set of JavaScript tools representing a full stack, from database to runtime environment, application framework, and frontend. This book provides a thorough background in building SPAs using the MEAN stack and other tools in the JavaScript ecosystem. It covers the basics of SPA architecture and JavaScript tools. The book then expands to more advanced topics, such as building, securing, and deploying an SPA built with the MEAN stack.
Chapter 1, Getting Organized NPM, Bower, and Grunt, introduces JavaScript frontend package-management, build, and task-running tools. These tools form the foundation for you to set up an ideal development environment.
Chapter 2, Model-View-Whatever, goes beyond the original MVC design pattern and explores its translation into frontend frameworks and its evolution into Model-View-*, or Model-View-Whatever (MVW), in which the Controller layer is more open ended and often abstracted into other layers more suited to an SPA environment.
Chapter 3, SPA Essentials - Creating the Ideal Application Environment, introduces you to the common components/layers of an SPA, the best practices and variations around these components, and how to put them together and lay the groundwork for a modern SPA.
Chapter 4, REST is Best - Interacting with the Server Side of Your Application, goes into further detail about the server side of SPA architectureāin particular, with regard to the REST (representational state t...
