Learning Single page Application chapter 1

M.E.A.N Stack
With Learning Single Page Application
By : Puguh Rismadi Ismail
From ; e-book Learning SPA by fernando montero

Understanding Single
Page Application

Topic Guidelines
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Getting acquainted with SPAs
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Understanding the working of SPAs
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Understanding the MVC/MVVM/MV* pattern
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Peculiarities between SPA and traditional web development
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Choosing a library or framework
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Introducing the MEAN stack
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The available tools
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It's all about JavaScript
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HTML, CSS, and the responsive way

Single Page Application
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SPA is a web application or website that fits on a
single web page with the goal of providing a more
fluid user experience and a rich interface. Also, only
one page is not limited to only one file; we can have
many templates in many different files.
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Such applications can vary from a small simple create,
read, update, and delete (CRUD), like a to-do list,
until it reaches a more complex level with countless
views, libraries, templates, scripts, and validations.

Understanding the work of SPAs
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Model View Controller (MVC) or Model View
Presenter (MVP).
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We will see Model View ViewModel (MVVM)

Learning Single page Application chapter 1

MVC pattern
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MVC is a software architecture pattern that emerged
in the 1980s, and it separates the visual representation
of information from the user's interaction.
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However, we are talking about the MVC pattern on
the client side, for example, JavaScript running on the
client side, to be more specific, the web browser.
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Note that the majority of SPAs transfer to a web
browser all the MVC logic used on the server with
languages such as Java, C#, and Ruby.

History of MVVM pattern
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In 2004, Martin Fowler published a small article
about a design pattern called Presentation
Model.
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Approximately one year later, in 2005, John
Gossman, a Microsoft architect for Windows
Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight,
revealed a new pattern on his blog, this time
named as Model View ViewModel.

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MVVM is very similar to Presentation Model;
both patterns have an abstraction of a View (on
the frontend, the view concept is what the client
sees), which contains a View's state and behavior.
The difference between them is that the MVVM
model is more standardized and has been used in
Silverlight for many years.

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MVVM is based on MVC and MVP, which
attempts to separate more clearly the
development of User Interfaces (UIs/frontend)
from that of the business logic and behavior in an
application.

overview of the MVC, MVVM, and
MVP I/O flow

Peculiarities between SPA and
traditional web development
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One of the important points is that the MVC pattern
can be applied on the server side or client side. For
example, we can use the MVC pattern that runs on the
server using some JavaScript library as Express and
build a SPA only on the server (in this case, Node.js).
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This is because MVC is a software architecture pattern
and can be applied on both sides, frontend with MVC
frontend frameworks and on server-side frameworks
such as Ruby on Rails and .NET.

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On SPA, everything happens on just one page; as
mentioned before, there's no refresh on page
request, such as in multipage applications where
we have page reload on each request. All the
necessary content is injected into the page
through the use of Ajax and HTML templates to
render the content.

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On multipage applications, we have HTML code
generated on the server, and this makes the job of styling
and customization of the user interface more difficult.
Generally, we cannot have simultaneous work on the
same screen.
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Also, on multipage applications, the template used is the
server-side template, so the web page is parsed and sent
to the browser. However, in the case of SPA, the HTML
code is generated on the fly according to the view, using
some templates such as Handlebars and Underscores.

Choosing a library or framework
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The community behind the tool
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The frequency of updates
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Support to other libraries
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Dependencies
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Modularity

Libary vs Frameworks
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Libraries are snippets of codes, usually in the same
file, and intended to solve a single problem. Often,
they are fairly lightweight and have a very short
learning curve.
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Frameworks are more robust and sometimes more
heavy than simple libraries; they have a directory
structure and a lot of concepts, conventions, and
rules to follow. They have a long learning curve.

Ex. Library
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Bootbox (simple alert messages)
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Knockout (data binds and observables)
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jQuery (DOM manipulation and effects)
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Rivets (data binding and templates)

frameworks; they all adopt a standard
MVC/MVVM
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Ember
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Angular
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Kendo UI
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Backbone
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Meteor

MEAN
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MongoDB, the database
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Express, the server-side web framework
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AngularJS, the frontend framework
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Node.js, the server

Tools to develop web applications

Recommended IDE for lesson
Plugins
Indonesia Tutorial :
http://www.programming.smktarunabhakti.net/blog/2016/06/23/tutorial-node-js-part-1/
http://www.programming.smktarunabhakti.net/blog/2016/06/28/tutorial-node-js-part-2-
instalasi-ide-dan-plugin-nodejs/

Taking a Deep Dive into
Node.js and MongoDB

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