The number of web applications being created and used has grown rapidly since the new millenium. And importantly, so has the sheer complexity of them — specially on the front end. No more static pages, no sir!
You have a ton of sections each interacting with each other and the server and yes, it’s as complicated as it sounds and just as hard to pull off. Today, I’d like to talk about a few, choice JavaScript frameworks that aim to simplify front end application development.
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There are certain truths in the world: we’re born, we die, and URLs should end with a slash if it doesn’t point to a file. The ASP.NET MVC framework bucks tradition and convention, and the built-in methods that generate URLs do so by omitting the trailing slash. It may seem like a non-issue (and to many people it’s not one), but many developers, this author included, are bugged by them.
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Unlike its web development peers, JavaScript has never really had much in the way of frameworks to provide structure. Thankfully, in recent years, that’s beginning to change.
Today, I’d like to introduce you to Backbone.JS, a sweet little library that makes the process of creating complex, interactive and data driven apps so much easier. It provides a clean way to surgically separate your data from your presentation.
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I’m often asked about how to create an extremely simple MVC boilerplate for small projects which don’t require a massive framework, like CodeIgniter or CakePHP. We’ll build a solution in ten minutes or so.
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CodeIgniter is a simple and lightweight PHP framework used to create powerful web applications. Today, we are going to do something nifty: we’ll combine user names and subdomains to make for a more cohesive user experience.
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This latest episode continues to delve into the ASP.NET MVC framework by looking at controllers and their role in MVC applications. You also learn how to perform model validation by implementing the IDataErrorInfo interface.
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In this episode of “ASP.NET from Scratch,” we’ll ditch WebForms in favor of ASP.NET MVC. You’ll get a taste of ASP.NET MVC and recreate a EmailForm application using the MVC framework!
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This tutorial is an introduction to the Hierarchical Model View Controller(HMVC) pattern, and how it applies to web application development. For this tutorial, I will use examples provided from the CodeIgniter from Scratch series and demonstrate how HMVC can be a valuable modification to your development process. This introduction assumes you have an understanding of the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern. We suggest you read our introduction to MVC to get acquainted with the topic before tackling this tutorial.
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Model-View-Controller (MVC) is probably one of the most quoted patterns in the web programming world in recent years. Anyone currently working in anything related to web application development will have heard or read the acronym hundreds of times. Today, we’ll clarify what MVC means, and why it has become so popular.
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If you are looking into buying a book to learn about Zend Framework, chances are you are already set on using Zend Framework to build your next project. Today, we will be looking at Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development by Keith Pope, published by Packt Publishing.
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