Book description
How do you create a mission-critical site that provides exceptional performance while remaining flexible, adaptable, and reliable 24/7? Written by the manager of a UI group at Yahoo!, Developing Large Web Applications offers practical steps for building rock-solid applications that remain effective even as you add features, functions, and users. You'll learn how to develop large web applications with the extreme precision required for other types of software.
- Avoid common coding and maintenance headaches as small websites add more pages, more code, and more programmers
- Get comprehensive solutions for refining HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Ajax for large-scale web applications
- Make changes in one place that ripple through all affected page elements
- Embrace the virtues of modularity, encapsulation, abstraction, and loosely coupled components
- Use tried-and-true techniques for managing data exchange, including working with forms and cookies
- Learn often-overlooked best practices in code management and software engineering
- Prepare your code to make performance enhancements and testing easier
Table of contents
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. The Tenets
- 2. Object Orientation
- 3. Large-Scale HTML
- 4. Large-Scale CSS
- 5. Large-Scale JavaScript
- 6. Data Management
- 7. Large-Scale PHP
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8. Large-Scale Ajax
- In the Browser
- On the Server
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MVC and Ajax
- Using Ajax with MVC
- Public Interface for the Model Object
- Implementation of the Model Object
- Public Interface for the View Object
- Abstract Interface for the View Object
- View Object Implementation
- Public Interface for the Connect Object
- Abstract Interface for the Connect Object
- Implementation of the Connect Object
- Controllers
- An Example of Ajax with MVC: Accordion Lists
- 9. Performance
- 10. Application Architecture
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Developing Large Web Applications
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2010
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596803025
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