Chapter 1. The Primer
This chapter serves as a primer of knowledge. With this, you will become aware of all the terms, patterns, and practices applied in the book. Also, you will learn about the tools, libraries, and frameworks being used and what their use cases are. More importantly, you will find out why you should be performing these different things and, in particular, why you are using SignalR, and how the methods you employ will naturally find their way into your software.
In this chapter, the following topics will be covered:
- Walk-through architectural patterns
- Messaging—what is it?
- Publish/subscribe models
- Decoupling for scale—why and how?
- Frontend patterns—also back to decoupling
- MVC
- MVVM
- AngularJS
- Twitter Bootstrap—using it to make things look ...
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