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Practical Web Design

By : Philippe Hong
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Practical Web Design

By: Philippe Hong

Overview of this book

Web design is the process of creating websites. It encompasses several different aspects, including webpage layout, content production, and graphic design. This book offers you everything you need to know to build your websites. The book starts off by explaining the importance of web design and the basic design components used in website development. It'll show you insider tips to work quickly and efficiently with web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, concluding with a project on creating a static site with good layout. Once you've got that locked down, we'll get our hands dirty by diving straight into learning JavaScript and JQuery, ending with a project on creating dynamic content for your website. After getting our basic website up and running with the dynamic functionalities you'll move on to building your own responsive websites using more advanced techniques such as Bootstrap. Later you will learn smart ways to add dynamic content, and modern UI techniques such as Adaptive UI and Material Design. This will help you understand important concepts such as server-side rendering and UI components. Finally we take a look at various developer tools to ease your web development process.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
PacktPub.com
Contributers
Preface
Index

Chapter 13. Introduction to Client-Side Rendering

Since the beginning of the web, as we have learned, the conventional method of displaying HTML is using server-side rendering. This latter was great; websites were simple and didn't need much interaction. However, nowadays, that's not the case anymore. There are a lot of applications on a single website; you need messaging, updates, shopping, real-time data sync—the end consumer always wants more.

In this chapter, you'll learn the following things: 

  • What is a server-side rendering? 
  • What is a client-side rendering? 
  • The pros and cons of both
  • An introduction to VueJS
  • Finally, creating a Weather application with VueJS

So, what is this client-side rendering? Client-side rendering is a new type of rendering website using mostly JavaScript to render it instead of server-side languages such as PHP, Python, or Ruby. 

To understand the difference, we will need to understand how server-side rendering works.