Single Page Web Applications

JavaScript end-to-end

» based on the 5^th version of the [Single Page Web Applications] 1 MEAP book.

Goal

Get first-hand experience using JavaScript as the language of:

• the database,
• the web server,
• and the browser application.

Tool chain

• native JavaScript
• HTML5 | CSS3 | Canvas | SVG » render the interface
• jQuery » DOM manipulation
  • history management plugin
  • event handling plugin
• TaffyDB2 » high-performance data-centric models
• Socket.IO » seamless near-real-time server-client messaging
• Node.js » event-based web server
• Google V8 » JavaScript engine
• MongoDB » noSQL database, storing data as JSON
• Chrome Developer Tools » inspect | debug