September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
210 pages
4h 47m
English
Content preview from Building Isomorphic JavaScript Apps
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Preface
I began my web development career many years ago, when I was hired as an administrative assistant at the University of California, San Diego. One of my job duties was to maintain the department website. It was the time of webmasters, table-based layouts, and CGI-BIN(s), and Netscape Navigator was still a major player in the browser market. As for my level of technical expertise, I think the following anecdote paints a clearer picture of my inexperience than Bob Ross’s desire for a happy little tree. I can clearly remember being concerned that if I sent an email with misspellings, the recipient would see my mistakes underlined in red the same way I saw them. Fortunately, I had a patient supervisor who assured me this was not the case and then handed me the keys to the website!
Fast-forward 15 years, and now I am an industry “expert” speaking at conferences, managing open source projects, coauthoring books, etc. I ask myself, “Well… How did I get here?” The answer to that question is not by letting the days go by—at least, not entirely so.
Why Isomorphic JavaScript
The latest chapter in my web journey is working on the Platform team at WalmartLabs, and it is here that my adventures in isomorphic JavaScript began. When I started at WalmartLabs I was placed on a team that was tasked with creating a new web framework from scratch that could power large, public-facing websites. In addition to meeting the minimum requirements for a public-facing website, SEO support, ...
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