High Performance Responsive Design: Building Faster Sites Across Devices

by Tom Barker

Yes, you can use responsive web design to create high performance, compelling websites. With this practical book, author Tom Barker demonstrates that responsive design is not just a frontend-only approach, but also a philosophy for taking advantage of the entire web stack. Responsive design patterns and anti-patterns, derived from heavily used real-world sites, are guiding principles throughout the book.

Ideal for frontend-focused web developers, this book shows you how to incorporate responsiveness and performance into your project plan, use Node.js for device-specific functionality on the backend, and write automated tests for a continuous integration environment. You ll explore many useful tools and responsive frameworks, and gain useful insights from Barker s own experience with responsive design along the way.


Get a primer on web performance concepts, web runtime performance, and performance tracking tools
Write functionality with Node.js that serves up a device-specific experience to the client
Explore client-side solutions, such as lazy loading entire sections of a page including images, styling, and content
Validate service level agreements (SLAs) by writing automated tests with PhantomJS
Examine several responsive frameworks, including the author s server-side framework, Ripple
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Genres: Nonfiction

169 pages, Paperback

First published September 25, 2014

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is aimed more at web developers than UX designers. I learned more about back end influences on website performance, so it was valuable; however not being in its main target audience I skipped through the more technical parts.