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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

Summary


In this chapter, we saw how to build a chatroulette using our own instance of PeerServer that is integrated with Express. The website we build had almost all the features that a chatroulette should have. You can now add features such as screen sharing, connecting users of particular a gender with each other, connecting users of a particular age, integrating captcha to prevent spam, and other features of your choice.

At the time of writing, the WebRTC team is working on an API that allows you to retrieve a stream from a screen for screen sharing. As this API is still under development, you can use browser plugins to retrieve a stream from a screen. You can find more about retrieving a stream from a screen using the plugins at https://www.webrtc-experiment.com/Pluginfree-Screen-Sharing/.

In the next chapter, we will discuss bidirectional communication between the client and the server in real time using WebSockets.