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Web Design Blueprints

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Web Design Blueprints

Overview of this book

The book delivers simple instructions on how to design and build modern Web using the latest trends in web development. You will learn how to design responsive websites, created with modern Flat User Interface design patterns, build deep-scrolling websites with parallax 3D effects, and roll-your-own single-page applications. Finally, you'll work through an awesome chapter that combines them all. Each chapter features actual lines of code that you can apply right away.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Web Design Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

What is an SPA?


Single Page Application is a new and very useful web trend. Using them allows you to build fast and efficient applications and reusable components that are great for mobile and responsive web applications.

Part of the popularity of the Single Page Application is due to its efficiency in front-loading all of the used libraries on the initial load into the DOM and then loading new content as needed. This way, when you want to load a new page, you do not require your user to pull down your CSS or JavaScript file over and over for any new page. You can instead just load the new content, templates, scripts, or data, as you need it. This is a very useful way to build web applications and it makes sense that people want to build them.

The SPA's relevance

The popularity of the Single Page Application has driven the rise of numerous helper libraries for making it. Frameworks are providing routing, loading, and require features that help include scripts, templates, and content, and...