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Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development

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Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development

Overview of this book

Single-page web applications—or SPAs, as they are commonly referred to—are quickly becoming the de facto standard for web app development. The fact that a major part of the app runs inside a single web page makes it very interesting and appealing. Also, the accelerated growth of browser capabilities is pushing us closer to the day when all apps will run entirely in the browser. This book will take your JavaScript development skills to the next level by teaching you to create a single-page application within a full-stack JavaScript environment. Using only JavaScript, you can go from being a front-end developer to a full-stack application developer with relative ease. You will learn to cross the boundary from front-end development to server-side development through the use of JavaScript on both ends. Use your existing knowledge of JavaScript by learning to manage a JSON document data store with MongoDB, writing a JavaScript powered REST API with Node.js and Express, and designing a front-end powered by AngularJS. This book will teach you to leverage the MEAN stack to do everything from document database design, routing REST web API requests, data-binding within views, and adding authentication and security to building a full-fledged, complex, single-page web application. In addition to building a full-stack JavaScript app, you will learn to test it with JavaScript-powered testing tools such as Mocha, Karma, and Jasmine. Finally, you will learn about deployment and scaling so that you can launch your own apps into the real world.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Organized with NPM, Bower, and Grunt
13
Testing with Mocha, Karma, and More

Summary


You should now have a better understanding of various data interchange formats such as JSON, BSON, XML, and YAML, and how they are used in web applications. You should understand the differences between SQL and NoSQL databases and what the advantages are of using one or the other depending on the needs of your application, and you have also learned about MongoDB and its use of BSON as a binary form of JSON. Additionally, you have learned about using web SPA container elements, and various methods of initializing and loading your app into that container.

These concepts are fundamental to understanding SPA development in general, and to understanding the inner workings of the MEAN stack and how it differs from other application development architectures.

Now that you have gotten a glimpse into the server side of a Node.js application and built a basic server with Express, let's go deeper into working with Express and learn about creating REST API requests for consumption within an SPA...