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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

Mustache.js


Mustache.js is an implementation of the popular Mustache template system for JavaScript templating. Mustache touts itself as a logic-less template syntax. The idea behind this concept is not necessarily to have templates completely void of logic, but more to discourage the practice of including a large amount of business logic within your templates.

Mustache gets its name from the use of double curly braces, which resemble the shape of a mustache, as the default delimiter tags for templates. The major difference between Mustache templates and Underscore.js templates is that Mustache does not allow for the placement of arbitrary JavaScript within an alternate form of its tags; it only allows for expressions.

In its simplest form, a Mustache template maps values from a JavaScript object directly to their respective template expressions, represented by the keys for those object values. Take an object such as the one shown here, for example:

{ 
    "name": { 
        "first...