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JavaScript and JSON Essentials

You're reading from JavaScript and JSON Essentials Build light weight, scalable, and faster web applications with the power of JSON

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788624701

Length 226 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Angular

Concepts

Web Programming

Authors (2):

Joseph D'mello

Sai S Sriparasa

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

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Preface

1. Getting Started with JSON

2. The JSON Structures FREE CHAPTER

3. AJAX Requests with JSON

4. Cross-Domain Asynchronous Requests

5. Debugging JSON

6. Building the Carousel Application

7. Alternate Implementations of JSON

8. Introduction to hapi.js

9. Storing JSON Documents in MongoDB

10. Configuring the Task Runner Using JSON

11. JSON for Real-Time and Distributed Data

12. Case Studies in JSON

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Requirements for AJAX

AJAX is an asynchronous two-way communication between the browser that is considered to be the client and a live web server via HTTP (or HTTPS). We can run a live server locally, using tools such as Apache, IIS, or node.js. We are choosing node.js to be our main server-side platform.

Setting up a node.js server

Perform the following steps to build a node.js server:

Download the setup from the following link: https://nodejs.org/en/. The reader needs to select the LTS (long-term support) executable so that we receive node.js community support for a long period of time.
The installation is a simple one-click setup procedure, you just need to follow the steps. If you are planning to install via terminal, here is the link for the required steps: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/.
Once the installation is complete, we are all set to write our first server-side program to generate and host a live JSON feed. Run the following commands in the terminal to create a file...

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Authors (2)

Joseph D'mello

Joseph D'mello

Bruno Joseph D'mello is proactively working at Truckx as a full stack developer. He is a JavaScript enthusiast and loves working with open source communities. He possesses more than 6 years' experience in web development. Bruno follows kaizen and enjoys the freedom of architecting new things at work. He is socially active via coaching in web technologies and participating in other research projects and meetups. When not engaged with technology, Bruno likes to spend quality time traveling with family and friends.

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Sai S Sriparasa

Sai S Sriparasa

Sai Srinivas Sriparasa is a web developer and an open source evangelist living in the Stamford area. Sai was the lead developer for building Dr. Oz's website, and has led teams for companies such as Sprint Nextel, West Interactive, and Apple. Sai's repertoire includes JavaScript, PHP, Python, HTML5, responsive web development, ASP.NET, C#, and Silverlight.

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