Backbone Js Essentials

If you are a developer with baseline JavaScript proficiency and are familiar with the jQuery library, then this book is ideal for you. Whether you've tried building complex web applications before and been frustrated by the challenge of doing so without the proper tools, or whether you've only built simple websites and are now looking to create full-featured web applications, this book has everything you need to get ahead of the curve.

If you want to build your site’s frontend with the single-page application (SPA) model, this hands-on book shows you how to get the job done with Backbone.js. You’ll learn how to create structured JavaScript applications, using Backbone’s own flavor of model-view-controller (MVC) architecture. Start with the basics of MVC, SPA, and Backbone, then get your hands dirty building sample applications—a simple Todo list app, a RESTful book library app, and a modular app with Backbone and RequireJS. Author Addy Osmani, an engineer for Google’s Chrome team, also demonstrates advanced uses of the framework. Learn how Backbone.js brings MVC benefits to the client-side Write code that can be easily read, structured, and extended Work with the Backbone.Marionette and Thorax extension frameworks Solve common problems you’ll encounter when using Backbone.js Organize your code into modules with AMD and RequireJS Paginate data for your Collections with the Backbone.Paginator plugin Bootstrap a new Backbone.js application with boilerplate code Use Backbone with jQuery Mobile and resolve routing problems between the two Unit-test your Backbone apps with Jasmine, QUnit, and SinonJS

A fast-paced guide to designing and building scalable and maintainable web apps with React.js About This Book Build maintainable and performant user interfaces for your web applications using React.js Create reusable React.js components to save time and effort in maintaining your user interfaces Learn how to build a ready-to-deploy React.js web application, following our step-by-step tutorial Who This Book Is For If you're a front-end developer with knowledge of jQuery and its libraries, along with frameworks, such as Angular.JS and Backbone.JS, or native JavaScript development, and you wish to use the fastest web user interface library there is, then this book is ideal for you. What You Will Learn Install powerful React.js tools to make development much more efficient Create React elements with properties and children Get started with stateless and stateful React components Use JSX to speed up your React.js development process Add reactivity to your React components with lifecycle methods Integrate your React components with other JavaScript libraries Utilize the Flux application architecture with your React components Test your React components with Jest test framework In Detail Building web applications with maintainable and performant user interfaces is a challenge that many have faced for more than a decade, but no one has risen to this challenge quite like React.js. Today React.js is used by Facebook, Instagram, Khan Academy, and Imperial College London, to name a few. Many new users recognize the benefits of React.js and adopt it in their own projects, forming a fast-growing community. The speed at which React.js has evolved promises a bright future for those who invest in learning it today. React.js Essentials will take you on a fast-paced journey through building your own maintainable React.js application. Begin by exploring how you can create single and multiple user interface elements. Create stateless and stateful components and make them reactive, learn to interact between your components and lifecycle methods and gauge how to effectively integrate your user interface components with other JavaScript libraries. Delve deep into the core elements of the Flux architecture and learn how to manage your application using stores. Finish by going that extra mile with the Jest test framework, running multiple tests on your application and find solutions to scale it further without complexity. Style and approach The book adopts a step-by-step, hands-on approach with ample codes to ensure you learn React.js at a fast pace.

Share code and assets across domains in Web applications with CORS About This Book A step-by-step guide but at a high level/fast pace. Not all steps are covered as a basic knowledge is assumed Provides a basic overview of the concepts but the focus is on providing the practical skills required to develop applications Focuses on providing practical examples Who This Book Is For Web developers have been limited by the Same Origin Policy and often wish they could spread their application across different domains. You know JavaScript and AJAX, and have run up against the Same Domain Policy, which is limiting your applications. What You Will Learn Why you need CORS: Bending the Same Origin Policy and basic CORS implementation, headers and XMLHttpRequest Creating proxies for CORS: Sometimes the header is not enough Security: vulnerabilities and how to secure your CORS application CORS implementations in Content Management systems Learn about CORS in Windows applications Take CORS on the Cloud Apply CORS in Node.js Best practices for CORS In Detail This book explains how to use CORS, including specific implementations for platforms such as Drupal, WordPress, IIS Server, ASP.NET, JBoss, Windows Azure, and Salesforce, as well as how to use CORS in the Cloud on Amazon AWS, YouTube, Mulesoft, and others. It examines limitations, security risks, and alternatives to CORS. It explores the W3C Specification and major developer documentation sources about CORS. It attempts to predict what kinds of extension to the CORS specification, or completely new techniques, will come in the future to address the limitations of CORS Web developers will learn how to share code and assets across domains with CORS. They will learn a variety of techniques that are rather similar in their method and syntax. The book is organized by similar types of framework and application, so it can be used as a reference. Developers will learn about special cases, such as when a proxy is necessary. And they will learn about some alternative techniques that achieve similar goals, and when they may be preferable to using CORS Style and approach A step-by-step guide filled with real-world applications

Design and build scalable web applications using Backbone.js About This Book Level up your Backbone.js skills and create professional web applications with the best practices Use the Backbone.js components in the right way and avoid maintenance nightmares Improve your development workflow from application design to deployment Apply the best practices given in this tutorial to solve day-to-day problems in your applications Who This Book Is For This book is for those developers who know the basic concepts of Backbone.js and want to build scalable applications with it. If you are looking for the best practices of using Backbone.js applied to real work applications, this book is for you. You will be able to apply architectural principles to create amazing web applications easily. What You Will Learn Build web applications that scale with Backbone.js Design a powerful architecture that eliminates maintenance nightmares Use common patterns and best practices in Backbone.js web applications developments Pack your applications to be deployed to production environments Clean up your code organization to a simple and maintainable architecture Test your components and get confidence with your code Deal with common scenarios like file uploading and login issues In Detail Backbone.js is a popular library to build single page applications used by many start-ups around the world because of its flexibility, robustness and simplicity. It allows you to bring your own tools and libraries to make amazing webapps with your own rules. However, due to its flexibility it is not always easy to create scalable applications with it. By learning the best practices and project organization you will be able to create maintainable and scalable web applications with Backbone.js. With this book you will start right from organizing your Backbone.js application to learn where to put each module and how to wire them. From organizing your code in a logical and physical way, you will go on to delimit view responsibilities and work with complex layouts. Synchronizing models in a two-way binding can be difficult and with sub resources attached it can be even worse. The next chapter will explain strategies for how to deal with these models. The following chapters will help you to manage module dependencies on your projects, explore strategies to upload files to a RESTful API and store information directly in the browser for using it with Backbone.js. After testing your application, you are ready to deploy it to your production environment. The final chapter will cover different flavors of authorization. The Backbone.js library can be difficult to master, but in this book you will get the necessary skill set to create applications with it, and you will be able to use any other library you want in your stack. Style and approach This book takes a tutorial approach to help you scale your Backbone.js applications. It builds a web application using the best practices and applies architectural design principles to develop maintainable web-apps. Each chapter explains the design decisions and improves the project that is used as an example alongside the book.

This is a hands-on book which introduces you to agile JavaScript web and mobile software development using the latest cutting-edge front-end and back-end technologies including: Node.js, MongoDB, Backbone.js, Parse.com, Heroku and Windows Azure. Practical examples include building multiple versions of the Chat app:•jQuery + Parse.com JS REST API•Backbone and Parse.com JS SDK•Backbone and Node.js•Backbone and Node.js + MongoDB The Chat application has all the foundation of a typical web/mobile application: fetching data, displaying it, submitting new data. Other examples in the book are as follows:•jQuery + Twitter RESP API “Tweet Analyzer”•Parse.com “Save John”•MongoDB “Print Collections”•Backbone.js “Apple Database”•Monk + Express.js “REST API Server” This book will save you many hours by providing a hand-picked and tested collection of quick start guides. RPJS has practical examples that allow to spend less time learning and more time building your own applications. Prototype fast and ship code that matters! What You will Learn: You should expect a basic understanding from a collection of quick start guides, tutorials and suggestions for the devel0pment apps discussed in this book. In addition to coding examples, the book covers virtually all setup and deployment step-by-step. You’ll learn from the examples of Chat web/mobile applications starting with front-end components and by the end we’ll put front-end and back-end together and deploy to the production environment. Who This Book is For: The typical programmer who wants to learn more about effective JavaScript coding.

This is a step-by-step guide to design patterns, best practices, and solutions to common problems for Backbone.js-based application development. This book is for JavaScript developers who work with Backbone.js and want to learn the best design patterns to develop complex web applications. Basic knowledge of Backbone.js and JavaScript is essential.

1 JavaScript FUNdamentals: The Powerful and Misunderstood Language of The Web 1.1 Expressiveness 1.2 Loose Typing 1.3 Object Literal Notation 1.4 Functions 1.5 Arrays 1.6 Prototypal Nature 1.7 Conventions 1.8 No Modules 1.9 Immediately-Invoked Function Expressions (IIFEs) 1.10 Keyword “this” 1.11 Pitfalls 1.12 Further Learning 2 CoffeeScript FUNdamentals: The Better JavaScript 2.1 Semicolons, Whitespace and Parentheses 2.2 Vars 2.3 Conditions 2.4 Functions 2.5 Classes 2.6 Arrays and Slicing 2.7 Splats 2.8 Comprehensions 2.9 Conclusion 3 Backbone.js FUNdamentals: The Cornerstone of JavaScript MV* Frameworks 3.1 Typical Backbone.js App Structure 3.2 Setting up Backbone.js App from Scratch 3.3 Dependencies for the Backbone.js Project 3.4 Working with Backbone.js Collections 3.5 Event Binding with Backbone.js and jQuery 3.6 Backbone.js Views and Subviews with Underscore.js 3.7 Super Simple Backbone Starter Kit 3.8 Conclusion 4 Node.js FUNdamentals: JavaScript on The Server 4.1 Read-Eval-Print Loop (a.k.a. Console) in Node.js 4.2 Launching Node.js Scripts 4.3 Node.js Process Information 4.4 Accessing Global Scope in Node.js 4.5 Exporting and Importing Modules 4.6 Buffer is a Node.js Super Data Type 4.7 __dirname vs. process.cwd 4.8 Handy Utilities in Node.js 4.9 Reading and Writing from/to The File System in Node.js 4.10 Streaming Data in Node.js 4.11 Installing Node.js Modules with NPM 4.12 Hello World Server with HTTP Node.js Module 4.13 Debugging Node.js Programs 4.14 Taming Callbacks in Node.js 4.15 Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl 4.16 Moving Forward with Express.js 5 Express.js FUNdamentals: The Most Popular Node.js Framework 5.1 Express.js Installation 5.2 Express.js Command-Line Interface 5.3 Routes in Express.js 5.4 Middleware as The Backbone of Express.js 5.5 Configuration of an Express.js App 5.6 Jade is Haml for Express.js/Node.js 5.7 Conclusion About The Express.js Framework 5.8 Update 6 About the Author 6.1 Errata 6.2 Contact Us