JavaScript for Line of Business Applications

These days, we believe in a principle that guides our whole approach to building modern applications: Build a REST API backend, then treat your Single Page Application just like any other client, with a separate codebase and separate server.

This blog post explains, at a high level, how our server architecture looks, and the reasoning behind it.

I have developed this simple app for my personal use for just adding bookmarks with priority range from 1 to 5. I mainly created this for following github repositories with a priority so tat I can look on these bookmarks and evaluate it later based on the priority.

Here’s the technology stack used for the demo app:

* REST API – Node.js and Hapi.js
* Data Persistence – Microsoft Azure Table
* Web App – AngularJS

Backbone.js is a lightweight framework that let us create single page applications in a structured manner. It is based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. It is best suited for creating single page applications using a RESTful service for persisting the data. 

Marionette.js is a composite application library built on top of backbone.js and it allows us to build large scale javascript single page application. Backbone.js does not enforce the use of strict MVC pattern but backbone marionette enforces the use of strict MVC pattern. marionette also provides us View classes that we can create and extend simple view, collection views and composite views. It also gives us the possibility of creating Controller classes and eventing mechanism across the application.

In this article, we will create a SPA using ASP.NET MVC, WEB API and Angular.js. Angular.js is a Model-View-* JavaScript based framework for developing SPA applications. Similarly ASP.NET Web API is a good fit for providing data for these type of applications.

SPA is the requirement of this new generation of web applications. It provides an easy interaction with WEB interfaces for users looking for a Desktop like experience on the Web. A mashup of client-server technologies like Angular.js and ASP.NET Web API helps you create enterprise ready SPA applications.

I've been developing Single-Page Applications for a while. I started using plain JavaScript, then jQuery, then a bunch of other crazy libraries, to then finally settle with AngularJS. I've been a fan since day one, and I believe users can benefit a lot from them.

In the previous post we wrote simple event emitter that allows us to do simple subscribe/publish events logic. Also I did some overview of inheritance in JavaScript, and today by combining all this stuff together we will build UI that might be changed according to the user interaction.

The talk included a number of specific tips and tricks on Backbone.js, Handlebars, and Rails that the team employed to build Wish Lists, which we launched in June.  I mention how we bootstrap the app from Rails to Backbone, our data lazy-loading strategy, how we keep our Backbone views modular and DRY, how we handle CDN and asset fingerprinting when generating HTML client-side, and our approach to I18n in the client, among other things.

In the talk I also introduced what it means to build a single-page app and outlined two different approaches: the Easy Way and the Hard Way.

Not too long ago, FTBpro.com moved its website from classic web architecture (CWA) to a single-page application (SPA). For those who are less familiar with SPA, the major differences between the two are as follows...

To put it in simpler words – while in CWA the client gets a full HTML page on each request, in SPA the client gets all needed to be able to render the HTML by itself on the first page load so that subsequent requests might be carried in a very fluent and rich manner. It makes your website more of an application and less of a si

This tutorial is about creating a Single Page Application using Backbone and performing database CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations using ASP.NET Web API as a RESTful service.

Contents list of this article:

1. Short description of Single Page Application.
2. Short description of Backbone.
3. Short description of ASP.NET Web API.
4. Sample Single Page Application using Backbone and Web API.

Spar is an opinionated framework that makes developing and deploying single-page web apps and static websites using modern front-end technology like SASS, Haml, and Coffeescript a cinch.

We created Spar to decouple front-end development and deployment from specific backend languages like ruby, python, or Java.

Who should use Spar?