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.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

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
Chapter 1 What is a single-page application?
Chapter 2 The role of MV* frameworks
Chapter 3 Modular JavaScript

Part 2 Core concepts
Chapter 4 Navigating the single page
Chapter 5 View composition and layout
Chapter 6 Inter-module interaction
Chapter 7 Communicating with the server
Chapter 8 Unit testing
Chapter 9 Client-side task automation

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