The Transparent Web
The Transparent Web
Bridging the Chasm in Web Development
About the Book
Web development has become complex. Rather than creating pages, we're now writing full-fledged web applications. But, the term web application is a bit of a misnomer. Most modern web applications are really several distinct web technologies flying in close formation. There are server-side and client-side applications which are loosely connected via AJAX. There are server-side and client-side layout, form-handling, and more. We have our hands full!
Wouldn't it be nice if we could all go back to writing, well, applications rather archipelagos? The application would handle the split between client and server transparently!
In The Transparent Web, I aim to demonstrate that there is hope for a return to coherence in web application development. I will guide the reader through the development of an application several times, first in the form of an MVC-style application, then in each of the transparent-style frameworks (currently: Ur/Web and Opa).
About the Author
Table of Contents
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Introduction
- Why Did I Write This?
- The Transparent Web
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MVC (Rails)
- Overview
- Crash course
- The App
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Meteor
- Overview
- Crash Course
- The app
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Opa
- Crash course
- The Bookstore
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Appendix A: Reactive Code (Functional and Otherwise)
- Spreadsheet-oriented programming
- Functions of time
- Interfaces
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Appendix B: Secure Remote Password Protocol
- Passwords: A Primer
- SRP Explained
- Bibliography
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