Enterprise Web Development: Building Html5 Applications: From Desktop to Mobile

by Yakov Fain, Victor Rasputnis, Anatole Tartakovsky

If you want to build your organization's next web application with HTML5, this practical book will help you sort through the various frameworks, libraries, and development options that populate this stack. You'll learn several of these approaches hands-on by writing multiple versions of a sample web app throughout the book, so you can determine the right strategy for your enterprise.

What's the best way to reach both mobile and desktop users? How about modularization, security, and test-driven development? With lots of working code samples, this book will help web application developers and software architects navigate the growing number of HTML5 and JavaScript choices available. The book's sample apps are available at http: //savesickchild.org.


Mock up the book's working app with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
Rebuild the sample app, first with jQuery and then Ext JS
Work with different build tools, code generators, and package managers
Build a modularized version of the app with RequireJS
Apply test-driven development with the Jasmine framework
Use WebSocket to build an online auction for the app
Adapt the app for both PCs and mobile with responsive web design
Create mobile versions with jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, and PhoneGap

Genres: Software

642 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 22, 2013

Reviews

[Tommy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Outdated in 2025 but was interesting to read the predictions of how HTML5 would change web development. Some big swings and misses. The book's big examples are written, unsurprisingly, in jQuery, but oddly Sencha Touch. The book mentions AngularJS but does not go into detail. React had just recently gone open source and isn't mentioned at all. They did make a good call explaining Typescript, which just released version 1 at the time of the book's release.

An interesting part was the book explaining JSONP. It was presented as a viable option with security considerations, where today it is a legacy feature no longer recommended.

[Matt Hartzell · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's been challenging to find a single book that really covers the width and depth of application development on the web at an enterprise level. That is the same case here, as the book has its highs and lows. I appreciated that the authors went a bit more in-depth in some areas as opposed to some other stuff I've read. The book is already showing its age, however. The web world changes so quickly, it is going to be hard for a book like this to stay current for any reasonable amount of time.

Until there is a book that really covers all the bases, you're probably going to need a beefy library to cover all the aspects of enterprise web development. This book is not a bad addition to that collection.

[Shinobu Kawano · Rating 5 out of 5]

Comprehensive insights in HTML5 + Enterprise Fields.