Learning Single Page Web Application Development - Softcover

Monteiro, Fernando

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783552093 ISBN 13: 9781783552092

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Build powerful and scalable single-page web applications using a full stack JavaScript environment with Node.js, MongoDB, AngularJS, and the Express framework

About This Book

• Deal with user authentication on single page web application.
• Test with Karma and Protractor
• Continuous deployment with automated tools

Who This Book Is For

This book is aimed at web developers who are familiar with frontend technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and modern tools like Bower, Yeoman, and Grunt.

What You Will Learn

• Streamline your development work with Bower, Yeoman, and Grunt.js
• Configure an AngularJS application using modules
• Test AngularJS applications with Karma and Protractor
• Create a conference web application
• Start from scratch and refactor your applications using Yo Express generator
• Use the new features of Express 4 such as Router, static middleware, and more
• Set up user authentication and store sessions with Passport

In Detail

Learning Single-page Web Application Development is a journey through application development using the MEAN stack with JavaScript  on the server side and client side, covering concepts such as RESTful, authentication and session on SPA. You will build large-scale applications. You will use a JavaScript environment with Node.js on the server, MongoDB as the database, and AngularJS on the frontend.

Everything is integrated with the Bower dependency manager, Yeoman, and other modern tools to speed up your development process. You will deploy your application to the cloud and learn how to prepare your directory structure to scale and grow.

Learning Single-page Web Application Development will give you an overview of AngularJS and RESTful APIs, and guide you in learning how to leverage single page development tools to create efficient and effective applications.

About this title

About the Author

Fernando Monteiro

Fernando Monteiro is a frontend engineer, speaker, open source contributor, and the mind behind the Responsive Boilerplate, a CSS library built with Less.js for responsive layouts. He contributes several articles and materials on design, development, and user experience on his blog and for the entire web community. He is passionate about web standards, frontend development, and mobile design, and he spent the last 12 years creating high-end graphic and web experiences. He began his career as a graphic designer in 2002 and quickly became an expert in QuarkXPress, producing and editing more than 500 ads, CDs, and DVDs for different companies around the world. He has also published a book on HTML5 and responsive design for mobile devices: Instant HTML5 Responsive Table Design How-to. Currently, he works as frontend manager in one of the largest private companies in web software development for government institutions. You can find more about him on www.newaeonweb.com.br.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783552093
• ISBN 13: 9781783552092
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214