Guiding Principles

I wrote this book with a few guiding principles in mind. The purpose of these principles is to focus the scope of the book and make it accessible and relevant to you, the reader. I’ve listed these principles here to give you some insight into how I’ve written this book and to help you better understand the context of the material you’re about to read.

Some of these principles may be potentially controversial. Some of them even run counter to popular thinking about how to build web applications. However, these principles will help you understand this topic in depth. It’s better to be controversial than try to be everything to everybody.

Use Web Standards and Familiar Tools

In this book, you’ll use a small, curated set of tools ...

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