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This book introduces you to Node, the new web development framework written in JavaScript. You’ll learn hands-on how Node makes life easier for experienced JavaScript developers: not only can you work on the front end and back end in the same language, you’ll also have more flexibility in choosing how to divide application logic between client and server.

Written by a core contributor to the framework, Node: Up and Running shows you how Node scales up to support large numbers of simultaneous connections across multiple servers, and scales down to let you create quick one-off applications with minimal infrastructure. Built on the V8 JavaScript engine that runs Google Chrome, Node is already winning the hearts and minds of many companies, including Google and Yahoo! This book shows you why.

• Understand Node’s event-loop architecture, non-blocking I/O, and event-driven programming
• Discover how Node supports a variety of database and data storage tools
• Learn best practices for writing easy-to-maintain code for Node
• Get concrete examples of how to use the various Node APIs in practice
• Take advantage of the book’s complete API reference

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. A Very Brief Introduction to Node.js
Chapter 2. Doing Interesting Things Download Now »

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With this digital Early Release edition of Learning JavaScript Design Patterns, you get the entire book bundle in its earliest form – the author’s raw and unedited content – so you can take advantage of this content long before the book’s official release. You’ll also receive updates when significant changes are made, as well as the final ebook version.

If you want to write beautiful, structured, and maintainable JavaScript code, this guide shows you how to apply both classical and modern design patterns to the language. The patterns in this book provide reusable code solutions to common problems in software design, and give you a shared vocabulary for describing solutions to others.

You’ll explore several popular design patterns in plain JavaScript as well as jQuery and other abstracted libraries. If you’re familiar with concepts such as closures and prototypal inheritance, you’ll be able to determine why some patterns may be more suitable for your projects than others.

• Learn the structure of design patterns and how they’re written
• Examine basic pattern categories: creational, structural, behavioral, and anti-patterns
• Get the basics of 15 JavaScript implementations of classical and modern design patterns
• Dive into several popular JavaScript patterns in greater detail—including some less frequently used
• Discover what design patterns look like when implemented with jQuery
• Explore three formats for writing modular JavaScript: AMD, CommonJS, and Harmony Download Now »

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With this digital Early Release edition of Developing Backbone.js Applications, you get the entire book bundle in its earliest form – the author’s raw and unedited content – so you can take advantage of this content long before the book’s official release. You’ll also receive updates when significant changes are made, as well as the final ebook version.

Get a complete run-down of the popular Backbone.js framework for structuring JavaScript applications. This practical guide takes you through Model–view–controller (MVC) theory, and shows you how to build applications using Backbone’s models, views, collections and routers. You’ll also learn advanced topics such as modular development with Backbone.js and RequireJS.

This detailed book provides an authoritative and centralized repository of information to help you develop real-world apps with Backbone.

• Build applications using modern tech stacks, including Node and Express
• Solve the routing problems with Backbone and jQuery Mobile
• Get tips about scaffolding tools

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Basics Download Now »

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Pro SharePoint with jQuery is all about how to work seamlessly with the two popular technologies to create rich and interactive web parts, application pages, and more. In this book, author Phill Duffy provides complete, meaningful and realistic examples to really help you understand the key concepts and their integration points. Inside, you’ll find all the tools and resources you need to use jQuery to provide the next level of SharePoint functionality.

Learn what it takes to get ready to use jQuery, how to create rich, responsive, and highly functional user interfaces, how to call the SharePoint web services and work with HTML elements, and much more with Pro SharePoint with jQuery.

• Takes you through the different ways of integrating jQuery into your SharePoint environment
• Provides various levels of projects to show off the extensive capabilities of jQuery within SharePoint
• Teaches you how to provide rich, fluent and interactive jQuery-enabled user interfaces

What you’ll learn

• The basics of jQuery effects, including styling elements, generating HTML markup on the fly, and creating modal dialogs
• How to debug your jQuery
• How to create a task management application page that allows users to easily create, edit and move tasks across statuses Download Now »

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JavaScript is the ubiquitous programming language of the Web, and for more than 15 years, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide has been the bible of JavaScript programmers around the world. This book is an all-new excerpt of The Definitive Guide, collecting the essential parts of that hefty volume into this slim yet dense pocket reference.

The first 9 chapters document the latest version (ECMAScript 5) of the core JavaScript language, covering:

• Types, values, and variables
• Operators, expressions, and statements
• Objects and arrays
• Functions and classes

The next 5 chapters document the fundamental APIs for using JavaScript with HTML5 and explain how to:

• Interact with web browser windows
• Script HTML documents and document elements
• Modify and apply CSS styles and classes
• Respond to user input events
• Communicate with web servers
• Store data locally on the user’s computer

This book is a perfect companion to jQuery Pocket Reference. Download Now »

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A complete, in-depth look at jQuery

If you’re looking for a single resource that completely encompasses jQuery and related technologies, then look no further. This authoritative guide dives right into exploring jQuery, the leading framework used for standards-based, client-side web development. You’ll discover how jQuery is structured so that it can be used to accomplish a wide range of tasks and you’ll learn how to integrate jQuery into your web pages. The authors provide helpful lessons and valuable examples so that you can get a firm grasp on how best to maximize the capabilities of jQuery.

• Begins with a look at where to access the latest version of jQuery and reviews a number of useful tools to help get started with this popular framework
• Describes how to manipulate DOM elements, work with HTML forms, and create visual effects
• Covers working with AJAX and JSON
• Explains techniques for using and developing jQuery plugins
• Details developing jQuery for mobile devices

You’ll quickly see for yourself why jQuery is rapidly growing in popularity as developers are looking to build sites that are fully functional today and can handle the technologies of tomorrow.

From the Back Cover
Learn the framework to create innovative, standards-based websites Download Now »