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UPDATE: This books is available at https://gumroad.com/l/rpjs.

Rapid Prototyping with JS: Agile JavaScript Development 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
• 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 include:

• jQuery + Twitter RESP API “Tweet Analyzer”
• Parse.com “Save John”
• Node.js “Hello World”
• MongoDB “Print Collections”
• Derby + Express “Hello World”
• Backbone.js “Hello World”
• Backbone.js “Apple Database”
• Monk + Expres.js “REST API Server”

This book will save you many hours by providing the hand-picked and tested colletion 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!

Buy Rapid Prototyping with JS on Leanpub for $14.87 or read this and four other JavaScript and Node.js books for $4.87/mo on AnyWhereLib.com.

More info: rpjs.co

This book is also available in print as paperback copy.

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Code examples: github.com/azat-co/rpjs

About the Author

Azat Mardan

@azat_co

Update: you can check out my books and buy them at http://webapplog.com/books.

Azat Mardan has over 12 years of experience in web, mobile and software development. With a Bachelor’s Degree in Informatics and a Master of Science in Information Systems Technology degree, Azat possesses deep academic knowledge as well as extensive practical experience.

Recently, he has worked as an engineer at the curated social media news aggregator website, Storify.com (acquired by LiveFyre). Before that, Azat worked as a CTO/co-founder at Gizmo — an enterprise cloud platform for mobile marketing campaigns, and has undertaken the prestigious 500 Startups business accelerator program. Previously, he was developing mission-critical applications for government agencies in Washington, DC: National Institutes of Health, National Center for Biotechnology Information,Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Lockheed Martin. Azat is a frequent attendee at Bay Area tech meet-ups and hackathons (AngelHack hackathon ’12 finalist with team FashionMetric.com).

In addition, Azat teaches technical classes at General Assembly and Hack Reactor, pariSOMA and Marakana (acquired by Twitter) to much acclaim.

In his spare time, Azat writes about technology on his blog: webAppLog.com which is number one in “express.js tutorial” Google search results. Azat is also the author of Express.js Guide, Rapid Prototyping with JS and Oh My JS!