The Transparent Web: Functional, Reactive, Isomorphic

DESCRIPTION The way we think about building web applications is changing fast to meet the increased demands of user traffic, data load, and development cycle time. New approaches, many influenced by functional and reactive programming models, along with the languages and frameworks that support them, are becoming mainstream. In this exploratory book, you'll tour emerging frameworks and languages, gaining ideas that will show up in next-generation programming. The Transparent Web presents a survey of new tools and techniquesfor web development focused on the themes of reactive programming, unifying separate platforms (isomorphic apps & more), and functional programming. It explores the benefits of modern type systems and functional reactive programming. It also teaches how these new approaches can make the reader a more productive developer by shortening revision cycles and making it easier to share code, scale applications, and add features. KEY FEATURES* Becoming more productive by shortening revision cycles * Writing web applications all in the same codebase and language * Techniques to save time debugging * Get applications up and running faster with all-in-one frameworks * Survey of practical tools and techniques AUDIENCE This book is for web developers who have some experience developing web applications in a more traditional MVC style. Readers should also be familiar with dynamic languages or statically-typed languages in the style of Java or C#. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Modern web applications are really several distinct web technologies flying in close formation. However, new approaches, many influenced by functional and reactive programming models, along with the languages and frameworks that support them, are becoming mainstream. The Transparent Web tours emerging frameworks and languages, gaining ideas that will show up in next-generation programming.