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Practical Application Development with AppRun

Building Reliable, High-Performance Web Apps Using Elm-Inspired Architecture, Event Pub-Sub, and Components

Apress

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  • First book on AppRun, a lightweight library (3K) for developing applications using Elm architecture, event publication and subscription, and components

  • Teaches app development concepts and ideas that are applicable specifically to AppRun and also to other frameworks and libraries

  • End-to-end solution for using AppRun to develop a web application from scratch

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Getting Started

    • Yiyi Sun
    Pages 1-22
  3. AppRun Development Environment

    • Yiyi Sun
    Pages 23-43
  4. Model the State

    • Yiyi Sun
    Pages 45-67
  5. View Patterns

    • Yiyi Sun
    Pages 69-92
  6. Event Patterns

    • Yiyi Sun
    Pages 93-118
  7. Asynchronous Events

    • Yiyi Sun
    Pages 119-140
  8. Single-Page Applications

    • Yiyi Sun
    Pages 141-162
  9. Third-Party Library Integration

    • Yiyi Sun
    Pages 163-190
  10. Server-Side Rendering

    • Yiyi Sun
    Pages 191-217
  11. A Real-World SPA

    • Yiyi Sun
    Pages 219-246
  12. Unit Testing

    • Yiyi Sun
    Pages 247-264
  13. AppRun DevTools

    • Yiyi Sun
    Pages 265-285
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 287-293

About this book

Explore the concepts, patterns, and architecture behind AppRun applications. With this end-to-end guide, you will be able to build web apps fast to the market with the low learning curve and high development productivity.

You will learn how to break down the application logic into three decoupled parts: state, view, and update. You will then see how to connect web page events to the AppRun event life-cycle, route user interactions, access data from the remote servers, compose the user interface using components, and integrate 3rd party libraries.

Following examples of various apps, such as the counter app, to-do app, weather app, hacker news reader app, and blog app, you will have all the techniques for developing your AppRun apps including the line of business apps.  You will also review wider development concepts such as using strongly typed states practically, unit testing strategies for app state changes, time travel debugging, async web API invocation, server-side virtual DOM, module compilation optimization, the developer tools, and more.


What You'll Learn

  • Use AppRun to develop web apps end-to-end
  • Understand the technology behind AppRun
  • Evaluate and compare architecture design
  • Develop applications using Elm architecture, event publication and subscription, and components. 

Who This Book Is For 



Web app developers and architects; useful for beginners learning front-end development and more experienced developers interested in learning about AppRun and modern development concepts and principles more generally



Authors and Affiliations

  • Thornhill, Canada

    Yiyi Sun

About the author

Yiyi Sun has an academic background in computer cartography and geographical information systems. He has over twenty years of software development experience and over ten years’ experience as a software architect. Currently, he works as Director of Technology in a real estate company based in Toronto, Canada. Coding and fishing are his hobbies.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Practical Application Development with AppRun

  • Book Subtitle: Building Reliable, High-Performance Web Apps Using Elm-Inspired Architecture, Event Pub-Sub, and Components

  • Authors: Yiyi Sun

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4069-4

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books

  • Copyright Information: Yiyi Sun 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-4068-7Published: 05 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-4069-4Published: 04 January 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 293

  • Number of Illustrations: 102 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Web Development

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 29.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 37.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access