SPA Design and Architecture: Understanding single-page web applications

Summary

SPA Design and Architecture teaches you the design and development skills you need to create SPAs. Includes an overview of MV* frameworks, unit testing, routing, layout management, data access, pub/sub, and client-side task automation. This book is full of easy-to-follow examples you can apply to the library or framework of your choice.

About the Technology

The next step in the development of web-based software, single-page web applications deliver the sleekness and fluidity of a native desktop application in a browser. If you're ready to make the leap from traditional web applications to SPAs, but don't know where to begin, this book will get you going.

About the Book

SPA Design and Architecture teaches you the design and development skills you need to create SPAs. You'll start with an introduction to the SPA model and see how it builds on the standard approach using linked pages. The author guides you through the practical issues of building an SPA, including an overview of MV* frameworks, unit testing, routing, layout management, data access, pub/sub, and client-side task automation. This book is full of easy-to-follow examples you can apply to the library or framework of your choice.

What's Inside

• Working with modular JavaScript
• Understanding MV* frameworks
• Layout management
• Client-side task automation
• Testing SPAs