Building a web app from scratch

The whole session is on GitHub at https://github.com/robert-hardy/FullStackQuants.

Here are a collection of links that get mentioned:

• The basics of the web and browsers:
  • Other examples of programatically creating a document (but HTML allows us to easily send code to be executed on the client):
    • create PowerPoint presentations with Python,
    • http://stackoverflow.com/a/19506287/1243435.
  • A good description of the components of a URL: anatomy of an HTTP URL.
  • An overview introduction to web development, with 3 separate sections: client-side vs server-side, persistent storage, frontend dev.
• jQuery
  • The JavaScript 'helper library' jQuery is practically everywhere, but apparently you might not need jQuery. This is an interesting reference to all the 'pure' JavaScript equivalents of jQuery functions.
  • jQuery just turned 10! John Resig reflects.
  • A year without jQuery.
• To do MVC
  • A brilliant idea from JavaScript guru Addy Osmani: the same app built with lots of different languages and frameworks, here.
• Client-side vs server-side rendering
  • A blog post form Tom Dale discusses client-side vs server-side rendering, here. There is a link to this article here on the work that Twitter did to improve the loading times.
• CDN
  • Get lots of your JavaScript from cdnjs.com: here.
• Flask
  • The mega tutorial by Miguel Grinberg here.
  • Building a RESTful API by Miguel Grinberghere.
• Underscore
  • Documentation here.
  • Annotated source here.