This talk will cover both pitfalls and opportunities of single-page applications, with a focus on native behavior that your application needs to provide in order to behave like an actual web site, while fixing a lot of the usability issues that web sites usually have.
Learn how to structure web applications by using the good old Model-View-Controller pattern in the browser rather than on the server. You’ll learn how to build models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich APIs and views with declarative event handling. You’ll also learn how to connect …
More and more developers are facing the challenge of organizing and deploying complex client-side Javascript applications. It turns out there are some excellent solutions to this problem bubbling up in the Ruby ecosystem. I am responsible for two complex Javascript applications at Yapp, and in this micro-talk, I shares a …
Several JavaScript libraries which implement the Model-View-Controller pattern recently gained attention. Only few of these libraries offer a superstructure which manages the individual models, views and controllers. It’s easy to set up a simple MVC example, but an application with multiple complex interfaces will need a sophisticated overall architecture. The …
This video explains the building of a multiplayer online game with HTML5 and JavaScript that weaves together several advanced API’s.
This talk explores the advantages and unique opportunities of developing with JavaScript not just on the client-side, but on the server-side as well. These benefits are: * Real world benefits of the absence of context-switching seen in production * The differences between developing only for V8 and developing for all …
