SPA Design and Architecture: Understanding Single Page Web Applications

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.

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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

About the Reader

This book assumes you are a web developer and know JavaScript basics.

About the Author

Emmit Scott is a senior software engineer and architect with experience building large-scale, web-based applications.

Table of Contents

PART 1 THE BASICS

What is a single-page application?
The role of MV* frameworks
Modular JavaScript

PART 2 CORE CONCEPTS

Navigating the single page
View composition and layout
Inter-module interaction
Communicating with the server
Unit testing
Client-side task automation

APPENDIXES

Employee directory example walk-through
Review of the XMLHttpRequest API
Chapter 7 server-side setup and summary
Installing Node.js and Gulp.js