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Modern JavaScript Applications

By : Narayan Prusty
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Modern JavaScript Applications

By: Narayan Prusty

Overview of this book

Over the years, JavaScript has become vital to the development of a wide range of applications with different architectures. But JS moves lightning fast, and it’s easy to fall behind. Modern JavaScript Applications is designed to get you exploring the latest features of JavaScript and how they can be applied to develop high-quality applications with different architectures. Begin by creating a single page application that builds on the innovative MVC approach using AngularJS, then move forward to develop an enterprise-level application with the microservices architecture using Node to build web services. After that, shift your focus to network programming concepts as you build a real-time web application with websockets. Learn to build responsive, declarative UIs with React and Bootstrap, and see how the performance of web applications can be enhanced using Functional Reactive Programming (FRP). Along the way, explore how the power of JavaScript can be increased multi-fold with high performance techniques. By the end of the book, you’ll be a skilled JavaScript developer with a solid knowledge of the latest JavaScript techniques, tools, and architecture to build modern web apps.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Modern JavaScript Applications
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introducing web components


Before we get into web components, you need to know why we are learning about them. Well, we are learning about web components because Angular 2 components utilize shadow DOM and templates, which are a part of web components.

In a nutshell, web components are a collection of four different browser specifications that enable the creation of reusable components in web pages. These four specifications are HTML imports, shadow DOM, templates, and custom elements. They can be used together or separately.

Web components provide native implementation of component-oriented architecture. A component created using web components is called a web component as well.

Before we learn about web components, let's consider a project for demonstration purposes. Create a directory named web-components, and then create a file named index.html in it. Web components have pretty poor browser support, so let's download webcomponents.js polyfill. Download the webcomponents.js file from https...