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Websocket Essentials: Building apps with HTML5 websockets

By : Varun Chopra
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Websocket Essentials: Building apps with HTML5 websockets

By: Varun Chopra

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (13 chapters)
WebSocket Essentials – Building Apps with HTML5 WebSockets
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
6
Enhancing HTML5 Web Application Development Using Modern Tools
Index

Modern tools and techniques


There are many different tools and techniques that enable the development process to be seamless. Let's talk about some of the modern tools and techniques that make a developer's life easier:

  • Code editors

  • Boilerplates

  • Packaging tools

  • Build tools

  • Application frameworks

  • Modern servers

  • Responsive web design

Code editors

The first thing to choose before we start coding is the editor that we will use for coding. There are many editors available, but the one most preferred is Sublime Text. It is a free-to-use tool and has really good support for different technologies.

Some of the features that Sublime offers are as follows:

  • Navigation to anywhere in the document by just pressing Ctrl+Shift+P

  • Distraction-free mode

  • Great plugin API based on Python that you can experiment with

  • Package Control that provides a lot of different packages to choose from and work on any technology you would like to

Boilerplates

These are nothing but different readymade templates which help in accelerating...