SPA Design and Architecture
eBook - ePub

SPA Design and Architecture

Understanding single-page web applications

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

SPA Design and Architecture

Understanding single-page web applications

About this book

Summary

SPA Design and Architecture teaches you the design and development skills you need to create SPAs. Includes an overview of MV* frameworks, unit testing, routing, layout management, data access, pub/sub, and client-side task automation. This book is full of easy-to-follow examples you can apply to the library or framework of your choice.

About the Technology

The next step in the development of web-based software, single-page web applications deliver the sleekness and fluidity of a native desktop application in a browser. If you're ready to make the leap from traditional web applications to SPAs, but don't know where to begin, this book will get you going.

About the Book

SPA Design and Architecture teaches you the design and development skills you need to create SPAs. You'll start with an introduction to the SPA model and see how it builds on the standard approach using linked pages. The author guides you through the practical issues of building an SPA, including an overview of MV* frameworks, unit testing, routing, layout management, data access, pub/sub, and client-side task automation. This book is full of easy-to-follow examples you can apply to the library or framework of your choice.

What's Inside

• Working with modular JavaScript
• Understanding MV* frameworks
• Layout management
• Client-side task automation
• Testing SPAs

About the Reader

This book assumes you are a web developer and know JavaScript basics.

About the Author

Emmit Scott is a senior software engineer and architect with experience building large-scale, web-based applications.

Table of Contents

1 What is a single-page application?
2 The role of MV* frameworks
3 Modular JavaScript
4 Navigating the single page
5 View composition and layout
6 Inter-module interaction
7 Communicating with the server
8 Unit testing
9 Client-side task automation
A Employee directory example walk-through
B Review of the XMLHttpRequest API
C Chapter 7 server-side setup and summary
D Installing Node.js and Gulp.js

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Information

Publisher
Manning
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781617292439
eBook ISBN
9781638353508

Table of contents

  1. Copyright
  2. Brief Table of Contents
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. About this Book
  8. About the Cover Illustration
  9. Part 1. The basics
  10. Part 2. Core concepts
  11. Appendix A. Employee directory example walk-through
  12. Appendix B. Review of the XMLHttpRequest API
  13. Appendix C. Chapter 7 server-side setup and summary
  14. Appendix D. Installing Node.js and Gulp.js
  15. Index
  16. List of Figures
  17. List of Tables
  18. List of Listings

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