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Modern JavaScript Applications

By : Narayan Prusty
Book Image

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

Chapter 2. Building a Coupon Site

The best way to understand Seneca and microservices architecture is by building a server-side application that would benefit from the microservices architecture. In previous chapter, we saw how large and complex server-side application benefits from the microservices architecture and why enterprises use microservices architecture. In this chapter, we will build a coupon website to practically demonstrate the benefits of using microservices architecture and Seneca to create a server-side application. While building this coupon site, you will also learn how to design a server-side application using the microservices architecture from scratch, how to split the functionality of the application into services, how a client can directly communicate with the services, and many other things.

Some of the things that we will cover in this chapter, apart from things related to Seneca and microservices architecture, are as follows:

  • Using the seneca-mongo-store plugin to...