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Learning Single-page Web Application Development

Learning Single-page Web Application Development

By : Fernando Monteiro
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Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Understanding Single Page Application
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1. Understanding Single Page Application
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Getting acquainted with SPA
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Peculiarities between SPA and traditional web development
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Introducing the MEAN stack
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The SPA directory structure
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It's all about JavaScript
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HTML, CSS, and the responsive way
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2. Taking a Deep Dive into Node.js and MongoDB
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2. Taking a Deep Dive into Node.js and MongoDB
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Node server, NPM, and middleware
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Event-driven development and the event loop
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Express – a web framework on a server
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MongoDB and the terminal
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3. API with MongoDB and Node.js
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3. API with MongoDB and Node.js
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The working of an API
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Boilerplates and generators
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The speakers API concept
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Creating the package.json file
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Node server with server.js
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Model with the Mongoose schema
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Defining the API routes
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Using MongoDB in the cloud
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Inserting data with Postman
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4. Creating a Conference Web Application
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4. Creating a Conference Web Application
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Rebuilding the API
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Adding the Passport middleware
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Dealing with routes
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Templates with Embedded JavaScript
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Bower leading frontend dependencies
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Pure CSS and Responsive Boilerplate for frontend views
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5. Starting with AngularJS
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5. Starting with AngularJS
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Starting the baseline application
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The AngularJS MVC pattern implementation
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Detailing directives, expressions, and scope
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Two-way data binding and templates
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Understanding dependency injection
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Services
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Modules in AngularJS
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Project organization
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6. Understanding Angular Views and Models
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6. Understanding Angular Views and Models
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Dissecting and understanding the MEAN.JS generator
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Scaffolding the application
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Refactoring the API
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Testing the speakers' API routes
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7. Testing Angular SPA with Karma and Protractor
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7. Testing Angular SPA with Karma and Protractor
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Testing concepts
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Introducing Jasmine
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Configuring Karma (unit testing)
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Configuring Protractor (e2e testing)
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8. Deploying the Application to the Cloud
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8. Deploying the Application to the Cloud
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Hosting the project on GitHub
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Continuous application development
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Automatic deployment from GitHub
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Hands-on deployment
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Final notes on SPA
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Index
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Index

Templates with Embedded JavaScript

At the beginning of the chapter, we adopted the mechanism of templates called EJS, which is very easy to understand. Besides, EJS gives us the template logic functionality within its syntax and can be easily embedded within HTML files. Its use is very similar to that of Handlebars, another excellent JavaScript library to use templates; for example:

<h1><%= title %></h1>
<ul>
  <% for( var i = 0; i < bands.length; i++ ) { %>
    <li>
      <%= bands[i] %>
    </li>
  <% } %>
</ul>

It is very similar to other programming languages such as PHP and RoR.

However, you can use the template that suits you; Node.js has a great list of template engines for all tastes.

Tip

Another good option for a template engine is Swig, which can be installed through the npm command:

npm install swig

  1. Let's create the following files' templates in the views folder:

    • login.ejs

    • profile.ejs

    • signup.ejs

  2. Also, we will create a...

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