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Modern JavaScript Applications

By : Narayan Prusty
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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

The Angular 2 architecture


Angular 2 is a framework for building the client side of web applications, based on a services-and-components architecture.

An Angular 2 application is composed of a view and various services. Services are simple JavaScript objects that hold application logic and state. Services should be reusable. Views consume services, and services can also interact with each other.

Views and services are loosely coupled so that an Angular 2 view can be used with any other architecture, such as Flux. Similarly, services can be used with any other view, such as React.

Angular 2 views are based on component-oriented architecture. In component-oriented architecture, the application UI is divided into reusable components. A component has a UI with code to update the UI and handle user actions on the UI. A custom tag is associated with a component, and whenever the custom tag appears, a new instance of the component is created and rendered. So, we can say that component-oriented architecture...