Leverage frontend development skills to build impressive iOS and Android applications with React NativeKey Features\[\*\] Apply flexbox to get layout and build rich animations that bring your React Native application to life\[\*\] Integrate third-party libraries and develop customized components that run natively on iOS and Android platforms\[\*\] Combine React Native with Redux, Redux middleware, and a remote API to build scalable data-driven ...

The book requires no prior knowledge of JavaScript and works from the ground up to give you a thorough grounding in this powerful language. If you do already know some JavaScript, you will find plenty of eye-openers as you discover just what the language can do. This book takes a do-it-yourself approach when it comes to writing code, because the best way to really learn a programming language is by writing code. You are encouraged to type code into Firebug's console, see how it works and t...

Want to create animated graphics for iPhone, iPad, and the Web, using familiar Adobe features? You’ve come to the right book. Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual shows you how to build HTML5 graphics with Adobe visual tools. No programming experience? No problem. Adobe Edge Animate writes all of the code for you. With this book, you’ll be designing great-looking web elements in no time.The important stuff you need to know:Jump into animation. Maste...

With scores of practical recipes you can use in your projects right away, this cookbook helps you gain hands-on experience with HTML5’s versatile collection of elements. You get clear solutions for handling issues with everything from markup semantics, web forms, and audio and video elements to related technologies such as geolocation and rich JavaScript APIs.Each informative recipe includes sample code and a detailed discussion on why and how the solution works. Perfect for interm...

If you’re an experienced PHP developer, you already have a head start on learning how to write Node.js code. In this book, author Daniel Howard demonstrates the remarkable similarities between the two languages, and shows you how to port your entire PHP web application to Node.js. By comparing specific PHP features with their Node counterparts, you’ll also discover how to refactor and improve existing PHP 4 or PHP 5 source code.At the end, you’ll have two fully functional codebases...

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 numbe...

One skill that’s essential for any professional JavaScript developer is the ability to write testable code. This book shows you what writing and maintaining testable JavaScript for the client- or server-side actually entails, whether you’re creating a new application or rewriting legacy code.From methods to reduce code complexity to unit testing, code coverage, debugging, and automation, you’ll learn a holistic approach for writing JavaScript code that you and your colleagues can e...

If you are a web developer working with geospatial concepts and mapping APIs, and you want to learn Leaflet to create mapping solutions, this book is for you. You need to have a basic knowledge of working with JavaScript and performing web application development.

Get a practical introduction to React Native, the JavaScript framework for writing and deploying fully featured mobile apps that render natively. The second edition of this hands-on guide shows you how to build applications that target iOS, Android, and other mobile platforms instead of browsers—apps that can access platform features such as the camera, user location, and local storage.Through code examples and step-by-step instructions, web developers and frontend engineers famili...

Over 30 life-changing recipes to help you create cutting edge, hybrid apps with Ionic 2.Key Features\[\*\] Leverage Ionic 2 and its exciting new features to create cutting edge real-time apps\[\*\] Work through simple recipes to address your problems directly and solve them effectively\[\*\] Get examples at each step to guide you on your learning curveBook DescriptionDeveloping real-time apps is the need of the hour, and apps...

Move over native apps. New progressive web apps have capabilities that will soon make you obsolete. With this hands-on guide, web developers and business execs will learn how—and why—to develop web apps that take advantage of features that have so far been exclusive to native apps. Features that include fast load times, push notifications, offline access, homescreen shortcuts, and an entirely app-like experience.By leveraging the latest browser APIs, progressive web apps combine al...

Learn how to build amazing and complex reactive web applications easily with Vue.jsKey Features\[\*\]Learn how to propagate DOM changes across the website without writing extensive jQuery callbacks code.\[\*\]Learn how to achieve reactivity and easily compose views with Vue.js and understand what it does behind the scenes.\[\*\]Explore the core features of Vue.js with small examples, learn how to build dynamic content into preexisting web appli...