This author focuses on the theme of web speed and its optimization. Their work explores the technical aspects and importance of efficient performance in the digital realm. The goal is to contribute to a faster and smoother user experience on the internet.
In this insightful and comprehensive guide, Addy Osmani shares more than a decade of experience working on the Chrome team at Google, uncovering secrets to engineering effectiveness, efficiency, and team success.
If you’re looking to use the single-page application model to build your site’s frontend, Backbone.js is an ideal framework for the job. This practical guide provides all the information you need to create structured JavaScript applications using Backbone.js and its unique flavor of the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture. You’ll start with the essentials of Backbone’s models, views, collections, and routers, and then dive into methods for building RESTful applications with modern technology stacks. Author Addy Osmani also demonstrates advanced uses of the framework, as well as ways to conduct unit tests. Learn MVC fundamentals to help you understand the framework Build Backbone apps with Node.js, Express, Mongoose, and MongoDB Create applications with the Ruby, Sinatra, Haml, and MongoDB stack Cleanly wrap units of application code into manageable modules Decouple Backbone with the Mediator and Facade patterns Resolve routing problems between Backbone and jQuery Mobile Unit test Backbone apps with Jasmine or QUnit and SinonJS
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