Full-Stack Web Development from the Ground Up: Principles, Practices, and Technologies - Softcover

Hundhausen Ph.D., Christopher D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323918840 ISBN 13: 9780323918848

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 2025

Synopsis

Full-Stack Development from the Ground Up: Principles, Practices, and Technologies addresses the growing need for a comprehensive upper-division computer science textbook that provides in-depth treatment of full-stack web development using the modern web development technologies that students are likely to encounter in industry. Professional full-stack web developers who are capable of developing both the front-end user interfaces and back-end databases and services for dynamic websites are in high demand. The book begins by laying a foundation in HTML, CSS and JavaScript―the building blocks of client-side web development.

It then explores one particular web development stack in detail: MERN, which stands for MongoDB, Express.js, React.js and Node.js. Together, these four technologies provide powerful support for full-stack web development in a single programming language―JavaScript. The crucial final step in the web development process is deploying apps to a server, so users can interact with them. This book simplifies deployment by focusing on just one web deployment environment: Amazon Web Services (AWS), and only those AWS tools that are absolutely necessary to deploy MERN applications.

• Takes a hands-on approach to web development, incrementally developing a realistic web application example to motivate and illustrate the concepts and techniques
• Augments coding examples and discussions with links to external web resources that provide additional discussions and perspectives
• Supplemented with a series of live coding videos in which the author walks through, step by step, the implementation of key pieces of a solution
• Provides an appendix that describes best practices for software development (agile development) and a set of tools (Git, GitHub, Kanban boards, online chat) to support those practices

About this title

About the Author

Recipient of both a Fulbright Grant and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Christopher Hundhausen is founder and director of the Human-centered Environments for Learning and Programming (HELP) Lab at Washington State University. His research applies the methods of human-computer interaction to the design and empirical evaluation of software environments and pedagogical approaches to improve learning and retention in undergraduate computer science and engineering education. Dr. Hundhausen has established himself as an international leader in the field of algorithm visualization, which explores technology and pedagogical approaches that enhance human understanding of computer algorithms.

From the Back Cover

Full-Stack Development from the Ground Up: Principles, Practices, and Technologies addresses the growing need for a comprehensive upper-division computer science textbook that provides in depth treatment of full-stack web development using the modern web development technologies that students are likely to encounter in industry. Professional full-stack web developers who are capable of developing both the front-end user interfaces and back-end databases and services for dynamic websites are in high demand.

The book begins by laying a foundation in HTML, CSS and JavaScript―the building blocks of client-side web development. It then explores one particular web development stack in detail: MERN, which stands for MongoDB, Express.js, React.js and Node.js. Together, these four technologies provide powerful support for full-stack web development in a single programming language―JavaScript. The crucial final step in the web development process is deploying apps to a server, so that users can interact with them. As with web development technologies, there is a dizzying array of options for deploying web apps. The book therefore simplifies deployment by focusing on just one web deployment environment: Amazon Web Services (AWS), and only those AWS tools that are absolutely necessary to deploy MERN applications. By guiding the reader step-by-step through the deployment process on AWS, this book aims to keep the focus on web development, not deployment.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323918840
• ISBN 13: 9780323918848
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 420