This free book is what I wanted when I started working with single page apps. It's not an API reference on a particular framework, rather, the focus is on discussing patterns, implementation choices and decent practices.
I'm taking a "code and concepts" approach to the topic - the best way to learn how to use something is to understand how it is implemented. My ambition here is to decompose the problem of writing a web app, take a fresh look at it and hopefully make better decisions the next time you make one.
Update: the book is now also on Github. I'll be doing a second set of updates to the book later on. Right now, I'm working a new lightweight open source view layer implementation, which has changed and clarified my thinking about the view layer.
Introduction
Writing maintainable code
- Maintainability depends on modularity: Stop using namespaces!
- Getting to maintainable
- Testing explained
Implementation alternatives: a look at the options
Meditations on Models & Collections
- Implementing a data source
- Implementing a model
- Implementing a collection
- Implementing a data cache
- Implementing associations
Views - templating, behavior and event consumption
- Templating: from data to HTML
- Behavior: binding DOM events to HTML and responding to events
- Consuming events from the model layer: communication between views and re-rendering views in response to model data changes
