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Write Modern Web Apps with the MEAN Stack: Mongo, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js
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Write Modern Web Apps with the MEAN Stack: Mongo, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js

by Jeff Dickey
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
5h 25m
English
Peachpit Press
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Chapter 1. How Modern Web Architecture Is Changing

In this chapter, I’ll cover how web applications were developed in the past, examine how JavaScript has evolved, and talk about the new approach web developers are taking toward architecture.

The Rise of the Static App

Web applications for about the last 10 years have looked similar. They typically follow a three-tier architecture consisting of a database, a server that generates HTML, and a browser that renders the HTML.

To deliver a dynamic application, traditional applications follow this process:

1. The user’s browser sends a request to a web URL. To make this happen, the user either clicks an anchor <a> tag or types in a URL.

2. The server receives the request and then fetches data from ...

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