September 2015
Intermediate to advanced
150 pages
3h 9m
English
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Preface
The Web has grown up.
In the old days, we used to code design-rich websites using an endless mess of nested tables. Today we can use a standards-based approach with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to achieve designs not possible in the Web’s infancy. Just as CSS ushered in a new era of ability and readability to the design aspects of a site, WebSocket can do that for bidirectional communication with the backend.
WebSocket provides a standards-based approach to coding for full-duplex bidirectional communication that replaces the age-old hacks like Comet and long polling. Today we have the ability to create desktop-like applications in a browser without resorting to methods that exhaust server-side resources.
In this book, you’ll learn the simple ways to deliver on bidirectional communication between server and client, and do so without making the IT guy cry.
Who Should Read This Book
This book is for programmers who want to create web applications that can communicate bidirectionally between server and client and who are looking to avoid using hacks that are prevalent on the Web today. The promise of WebSocket is a better way, based on standards and supported by all modern browsers, with sensible fallback options for those who need to support it. For those who haven’t considered WebSocket, put down the Comet tutorial you have been reading.
This book is appropriate for novices and experienced users. I assume that you have a programming background and are familiar with JavaScript. ...
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