Learning Node. Moving to the Server-Side. 2nd Edition

Autor: Shelley Powers

Take your web development skills from browser to server with Node-and learn how to write fast, highly scalable network applications on this JavaScript-based platform. Updated for the latest Node Long Term Support (LTS) and Node Current (6.0) releases, this hands-on edition helps you master Node...s core fundamentals and gain ...

Time Is Money. The Business Value of Web Performance

Autor: Tammy Everts

If you want to convince your organization to conduct a web performance upgrade, this concise book will strengthen your case. Drawing upon her many years of web performance research, author Tammy Everts uses cases studies and other data to explain how web page speed and availability affect a host of business metrics. You...ll ...

Learning Rails 5. Rails from the Outside In

Autor: J. Mark Locklear, Eric J Gruber, Barnabas Bulpett

If you...re a web developer or designer ready to learn Ruby on Rails, this hands-on guide is the ideal way to get started. Rather than toss you into the middle of the framework...s Model-View-Controller architecture, as many books do, Learning Rails 5 begins with the foundations of the Web you already know.You...ll learn how ...

High Performance Mobile Web. Best Practices for Optimizing Mobile Web Apps

Autor: Maximiliano Firtman

Optimize the performance of your mobile websites and webapps to the extreme. With this hands-on book, veteran mobile and web developer Maximiliano Firtman demonstrates which aspects of your site or app slow down the user...s experience, and what you can do to achieve lightning-fast performance. There...s much at stake: if you ...

Creating Web Animations. Bringing Your UIs to Life

Autor: Kirupa Chinnathambi

Thanks to faster browsers, better web standards support, and more powerful devices, the web now defines the next generation of user interfaces that are fun, practical, fluid, and memorable. The key? Animation. But learning how to create animations is hard, and existing learning material doesn...t explain the context of the UI ...

Designing Bots. Creating Conversational Experiences

Autor: Amir Shevat

From Facebook Messenger to Kik, and from Slack bots to Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and email bots, the new conversational apps are revolutionizing the way we interact with software. This practical guide shows you how to design and build great conversational experiences and delightful bots that help people be more producti ...

Powering Content. Building a Nonstop Content Marketing Machine

Autor: Laura Busche

Your new product is ready to launch and you...re itching to tell potential customers all about it. But how do you make your message stand out above all the noise and marketing clutter? Take the guesswork out of content management with this hands-on guide. You...ll learn how to produce and manage powerful content pieces that s ...

Building Progressive Web Apps. Bringing the Power of Native to the Browser

Autor: Tal Ater

Move over native apps. New progressive web apps have capabilities that will soon make you obsolete. With this hands-on guide, web developers and business execs will learn how-and why-to develop web apps that take advantage of features that have so far been exclusive to native apps. Features that include fast load times, push ...

Presto Sketching. The Magic of Simple Drawing for Brilliant Product Thinking and Design

Autor: Ben Crothers

Do you feel like your thoughts, ideas, and plans are being suffocated by a constant onslaught of information? Do you want to get those great ideas out of your head, onto the whiteboard and into everyone else...s heads, but find it hard to start? No matter what level of sketching you think you have, Presto Sketching will help ...

Vue.js: Up and Running. Building Accessible and Performant Web Apps

Autor: Callum Macrae

Get a brisk introduction to building fast, interactive single-page web applications with Vue.js, the popular JavaScript framework that organizes and simplifies web development. With this practical guide, you...ll quickly move from basics to custom components and advanced features-including JSX, the JavaScript syntax extension ...