Mastering JavaScript single page application development: an in-depth guide to exploring the design, architecture, and techniques behind building sophisticated, scalable, and maintainable single-page applications in JavaScript

Cover
 Copyright
 Credits
 About the Authors
 About the Reviewer
 www.PacktPub.com
 Table of Contents
 Preface
 Chapter 1: Getting Organized with NPM, Bower, and Grunt
 What is Node Package Manager?
 Installing Node.js and NPM
 Configuring your package.json file
 NPM dependencies
 Updating your development dependencies
 Bower
 Installing Bower
 Configuring your bower.json file
 Bower components location and the .bowerrc file
 Bower dependencies
 Searching the Bower registry
 Grunt
 Installing the Grunt CLI
 Installing the Grunt task runner
 Installing Grunt plugins
 Configuring Grunt Understanding Node.js modulesCreating a Gruntfile
 Defining Grunt task configuration
 Loading Grunt plugins
 Running the jshint Grunt task
 Running the watch Grunt task
 Defining the default Grunt task
 Defining custom tasks
 Summary
 Chapter 2: Model-View-Whatever
 The original MVC pattern
 The Model
 The View
 The Controller
 MVP and MVVM
 MVP
 MVVM
 Summarizing the differences between MVC, MVP, and MVVM
 VIPER and other variations of MVW
 VIPER
 Other variations of MVW
 AngularJS and MVW
 A brief history of AngularJS
 AngularJS components
 Template
 Directives
 Model
 Scope
 Expressions The differences between SQL and NoSQL databasesNoSQL data typing
 Relational data typing
 ACID transactions
 Atomicity
 Consistency
 Isolation
 Durability
 MongoDB and ACID
 Write-ahead logging with MongoDB
 When to use SQL versus NoSQL databases
 Scalability
 Horizontal scaling
 Big Data
 Operational Big Data
 Analytical Big Data
 Overall considerations
 Methods of presenting an SPA container
 How to define your SPA container
 Partial page container
 Full page container
 How to load your SPA container
 Loading on user interaction
 Login page transition Loading based on the DOMContentLoaded eventLoading based on the document readystatechange event
 Loading directly from the document.body
 Using the script tag async attribute
 Using the script tag defer attribute
 Managing layouts
 Static layouts
 Dynamic layouts
 Installing Express
 Setting up a basic server with Express
 Basic routing with Express
 Running a server with Express
 Loading static assets with Express
 Dynamic routing with Express
 Summary
 Chapter 4: REST is Best --
Interacting with the Server Side of Your App
 Understanding the fundamentals of REST