Single page apps in depth

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.

Introduction

• Modern single page apps - an overview

Writing maintainable code

• Maintainability depends on modularity: Stop using namespaces!
• Getting to maintainable
• Testing explained

Implementation alternatives: a look at the options

• The view layer
• The model layer

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