Web Design
Soham Kamani
Modern web technology and portable computing together have enabled huge advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) space,as well as in areas such as machine learning and big data. The Raspberry Pi is a very popular portable computer for running full stack web applications. This book will empower you to master this rapidly evolving technology to develop complex web applications and interfaces.This book starts by familiarizing you with the various components that make up the webdevelopment stack and that will integrate into your Raspberry Pi-powered web applications. It also introduces the Raspberry Pi computer and teach you how to get upand running with a brand new one. Next, this book introduces you to the different kinds ofsensor you’ll use to make your applications; using these skills, you will be able to createfull stack web applications and make them available to users via a web interface. Later,this book will also teach you how to build interactive web applications using JavaScriptand HTML5 for the visual representation of sensor data. Finally, this book will teach youhow to use a SQLite database to store and retrieve sensor data from multiple RaspberryPi computers.By the end of this book you will be able to create complex full stack web applicationson the Raspberry Pi 3 and will have improved your application’s performance and usability.
Full-Stack React Projects. Modern web development using React 16, Node, Express, and MongoDB
Shama Hoque
The benefits of using a full JavaScript stack for web development are undeniable, especially when robust and widely adopted technologies such as React, Node, and Express and are available. Combining the power of React with industry-tested, server-side technologies, such as Node, Express, and MongoDB, creates a diverse array of possibilities when developing real-world web applications.This book guides you through preparing the development environment for MERN stack-based web development, to creating a basic skeleton application and extending it to build four different web applications. These applications include a social media, an online marketplace, a media streaming, and a web-based game application with virtual reality features. While learning to set up the stack and developing a diverse range of applications with this book, you will grasp the inner workings of the MERN stack, extend its capabilities for complex features, and gain actionable knowledge of how to prepare MERN-based applications to meet the growing demands of real-world web applications.
Anthony Gore
Vue is a JavaScript framework that can be used for anything from simple data display to sophisticated front-end applications and Laravel is a PHP framework used for developing fast and secure web-sites. This book gives you practical knowledge of building modern full-stack web apps from scratch using Vue with a Laravel back end.In this book, you will build a room-booking website named Vuebnb. This project will show you the core features of Vue, Laravel and other state-of-the-art web development tools and techniques.The book begins with a thorough introduction to Vue.js and its core concepts like data binding, directives and computed properties, with each concept being explained first, then put into practice in the case-study project.You will then use Laravel to set up a web service and integrate the front end into a full-stack app. You will be shown a best-practice development workflow using tools like Webpack and Laravel Mix.With the basics covered, you will learn how sophisticated UI features can be added using ES+ syntax and a component-based architecture. You will use Vue Router to make the app multi-page and Vuex to manage application state.Finally, you will learn how to use Laravel Passport for authenticated AJAX requests between Vue and the API, completing the full-stack architecture. Vuebnb will then be prepared for production and deployed to a free Heroku cloud server.
Aneeta Sharma
Isomorphic JavaScript was the buzzword of the year 2017, allowing developers to utilize a single language throughout their web development stack and build cost-effective and scalable applications. MEVN is a one such modern web development stack consisting of web applications such as MongoDB, Express.js, Vue.js, and Node.js. Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js 2 and Node.js leverages the harmony of these technologies to help you create full-stack web applications.Starting with the core frameworks, this example-based guide explains all the key concepts of frameworks, how to set them up properly, and how to use popular modules to connect them together and make them work cohesively. You will learn all this with the help of real-world examples. In addition to this, you will be able to scaffold web application architecture, add an authentication layer, and develop the MVC structure to support the development of your application. You'll explore how to create data models for your applications and then write REST APIs by exposing your data model to your application. Solely orientated towards building a full, end-to-end application using the MEVN stack, this book will help you understand how your application development grows.
Game Audio Development with Unity 5.X. Design a blockbuster game soundtrack with Unity 5.X
Micheal Lanham
Game Audio is one of the key components in making a game successful and it is quite popular in the gaming industry. So if you are a game developer with an eye on capturing the gamer market then this book is the right solution for you. In this book, we will take you through a step by step journey which will teach you to implement original and engaging soundtracks and SFX with Unity 5.x. You will be firstly introduced to the basics of game audio and sound development in Unity. After going through the core topics of audio development: audio sources, spatial sound, mixing, effects, and more; you will then have the option of delving deeper into more advanced topics like dynamic and adaptive audio. You will also learn to develop dynamic and adaptive audio using the Unity Audio Mixer. Further, you will learn how professional third party tools like FMOD are used for audio development in Unity. You will then go through the creation of sound visualization techniques and creating your own original music using the simple yet powerful audio workstation Reaper. Lastly, you will go through tips, techniques and strategies to help you optimize game audio performance or troubleshoot issues. At the end of the book, you’ll have gained the skills to implement professional sound and music. Along with a good base knowledge audio and music principles you can apply across a range of other game development tools.
Minko Gechev
Want to build quick and robust web applications with Angular? This book is the quickest way to get to grips with Angular and take advantage of all its new features.
Getting Started with Gulp. Automating web development workflows - Second Edition
Travis Maynard
This book is a hands-on guide to get you up to speed with gulp. You will quickly learn how to install, configure, and run your own build system. It will instill you with the ability to automate several common development tasks to vastly improve your development workflow. This book first demonstrates various Gulp use cases before running through the steps of configuring, running, and customizing Gulp, providing you with core concepts of gulp, node.js, and npm. Diving a bit deeper into the gulp ecosystem, we will discuss when and why to use a node module instead of a gulp plugin. We will also go over a few issues that we can run into while using gulp and learn about ways to work around them to improve your gulp experience.By the end of this book, you will be able to create your very own gulp build from scratch, create and maintain tasks and project builds, and automate your workflow with plugins and custom tasks.
Getting Started with React VR. Build immersive Virtual Reality apps for the web with React
John Gwinner
This book takes you on a journey to create intuitive and interactive Virtual Reality experiences by creating your first VR application using React VR 2.0.0.It starts by getting you up to speed with Virtual Reality (VR) and React VR components.It teaches you what Virtual Reality (VR) really is, why it works, how to describe 3D objects, the installation of Node.js (version 9.2.0) and WebVR browser. You will learn 3D polygon modeling, texturing, animating virtual objects and adding sound to your VR world. You will also discover ways to extend React VR with new features and native Three.js. You will learn how to include existing high-performance web code into your VR app. This book will also take you through upgrading and publishing your app. By the end of this book, you'll have a deep knowledge of Virtual Reality and a full-fledged working VR app to add to your profile!
Go Cookbook. Build modular, readable, and testable applications in Go
Aaron Torres
Go (a.k.a. Golang) is a statically-typed programming language first developed at Google. It is derived from C with additional features such as garbage collection, type safety, dynamic-typing capabilities, additional built-in types, and a large standard library.This book takes off where basic tutorials on the language leave off. You can immediately put into practice some of the more advanced concepts and libraries offered by the language while avoiding some of the common mistakes for new Go developers. The book covers basic type and error handling. It explores applications that interact with users, such as websites, command-line tools, or via the file system. It demonstrates how to handle advanced topics such as parallelism, distributed systems, and performance tuning. Lastly, it finishes with reactive and serverless programming in Go.
Go Web Development Cookbook. Build full-stack web applications with Go
Arpit Aggarwal
Go is an open source programming language that is designed to scale and support concurrency at the language level. This gives you the liberty to write large concurrent web applications with ease. From creating web application to deploying them on Amazon Cloud Services, this book will be your one-stop guide to learn web development in Go. The Go Web Development Cookbook teaches you how to create REST services, write microservices, and deploy Go Docker containers. Whether you are new to programming or a professional developer, this book will help get you up to speed with web development in Go. We will focus on writing modular code in Go; in-depth informative examples build the base, one step at a time. You will learn how to create a server, work with static files, SQL, NoSQL databases, and Beego. You will also learn how to create and secure REST services, and create and deploy Go web application and Go Docker containers on Amazon Cloud Services. By the end of the book, you will be able to apply the skills you've gained in Go to create and explore web applications in any domain.
Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide. Implement the power of Go to scrape and crawl data from the web
Vincent Smith
Web scraping is the process of extracting information from the web using various tools that perform scraping and crawling. Go is emerging as the language of choice for scraping using a variety of libraries. This book will quickly explain to you, how to scrape data data from various websites using Go libraries such as Colly and Goquery.The book starts with an introduction to the use cases of building a web scraper and the main features of the Go programming language, along with setting up a Go environment. It then moves on to HTTP requests and responses and talks about how Go handles them. You will also learn about a number of basic web scraping etiquettes.You will be taught how to navigate through a website, using a breadth-first and then a depth-first search, as well as find and follow links. You will get to know about the ways to track history in order to avoid loops and to protect your web scraper using proxies.Finally the book will cover the Go concurrency model, and how to run scrapers in parallel, along with large-scale distributed web scraping.
Shelley Powers
Spraw, by Twoja strona wyglądała profesjonalnie! Jaki format wybrać dla plików graficznych? Jak tworzyć grafikę użytkową? Jak wykorzystać grafikę wektorową? Wszyscy doskonale wiemy o tym, że o wartości strony internetowej świadczą treści na niej umieszczone. Nie da się jednak zaprzeczyć, że forma, w jakiej są one podane, również ma znaczenie. Osiągnięcie równowagi w tym zakresie nie jest rzeczą łatwą. Jak sprawić, żeby nie doszło do przerostu formy nad treścią? Jak zapewnić optymalny stosunek jakości użytych grafik do ich objętości (w końcu przepustowość łączy nie jest nieskończona)? Przy dużej liczbie odwiedzających różnica kilku kilobajtów może przełożyć się na ogromny wzrost obciążenia łączy, a co za tym idzie, wzrost kosztów utrzymania strony. Wydawałoby się, że te i wiele innych kwestii mogą rozwiązać tylko profesjonaliści. Jednak wcale nie musi tak być! Każdy, kto przeczyta tę książkę, będzie czuł się swobodnie w zagadnieniach związanych z publikacją i wykorzystaniem grafiki w Internecie! Dzięki książce "Grafika w internecie" poznasz wszystkie aspekty pracy z obrazami umieszczanymi w globalnej sieci. Shelley Powers przedstawi Ci wykorzystywane formaty plików graficznych oraz pokaże, do czego każdy z nich nadaje się najlepiej. Zdobędziesz wiedzę na temat dostępnych narzędzi do obróbki grafiki -- zarówno tych płatnych, jak i darmowych. Ponadto nauczysz się tworzyć miniatury zdjęć i układać zdjęcia na stronie. Dowiesz się, jak tworzyć grafikę użytkową, jakie zasady obowiązują przy pracy z grafiką wektorową oraz jakie możliwości drzemią w formacie SVG. Na koniec zapoznasz się z tematami związanymi z projektowaniem stron internetowych -- zrozumiesz, jak wykorzystać kaskadowe arkusze stylów (CSS), jak przygotować dobrą i przejrzystą stronę oraz jak dynamicznie zmieniać właściwości grafiki! Jeżeli myślisz, że praktyczne wykorzystanie grafiki na stronach WWW to wiedza tajemna, ta książka z pewnością to zmieni! Formaty plików graficznych i ich zastosowanie Przygotowanie zdjęć do publikacji w Internecie Narzędzia do obróbki grafiki -- płatne i darmowe Edytory obrazów dostępne online Tworzenie miniatur Sposoby układania zdjęć na stronie Narzędzia do automatycznego generowania galerii oraz pokazów slajdów Tworzenie grafiki użytkowej Wykorzystanie grafiki wektorowej i formatu SVG Zastosowanie kaskadowych arkuszy stylów (CSS) Zasady tworzenia dobrych stron WWW Narzędzia ułatwiające projektowanie stron WWW Dynamiczna modyfikacja grafik Automatyzacja obróbki grafiki -- narzędzie ImageMagick oraz obróbka za pomocą PHP/GD Sposób wykorzystania serwisów Google Maps oraz Yahoo! Maps Łączenie danych z grafiką Poznaj wszystkie aspekty praktycznego wykorzystania grafiki w Internecie!
Gaston C. Hillar, Daron Yöndem
Cosmos DB is a NoSQL database service included in Azure that is continuously adding new features and has quickly become one of the most innovative services found in Azure, targeting mission-critical applications at a global scale. This book starts off by showing you the main features of Cosmos DB, their supported NoSQL data models and the foundations of its scalable and distributed architecture. You will learn to work with the latest available tools that simplify your tasks with Cosmos DB and reduce development costs, such as the Data Explorer in the Azure portal, Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer, and the Cosmos DB Emulator.Next, move on to working with databases and document collections. We will use the tools to run schema agnostic queries against collections with the Cosmos DB SQL dialect and understand their results. Then, we will create a first version of an application that uses the latest .NET Core SDK to interact with Cosmos DB. Next, we will create a second version of the application that will take advantage of important features that the combination of C# and the .NET Core SDK provides, such as POCOs and LINQ queries. By the end of the book, you will be able to build an application that works with a Cosmos DB NoSQL document database with C#, the .NET Core SDK, LINQ, and JSON.
Sam Williams
Have you ever wondered how Alexa apps are made, how voice-enabled technologies work, or how chatbots function? And why tech giants such as Amazon and Google are investing in voice technologies? A better question is: why should I start developing on these platforms? Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex covers all features of the Alexa Skills kit with real-world examples that help you develop skills to integrate Echo and chatbots into Facebook, Slack, and Twilio with the Amazon Lex platform.The book starts with teaching you how to set up your local environment and AWS CLI so that you can automate the process of uploading AWS Lambda from your local machine. You will then learn to develop Alexa Skills and Lex chatbots using Lambda functions to control functionality. Once you’ve come to grips with this, you will learn to create increasingly complex chatbots, integrate Amazon S3, and change the way Alexa talks to the user. In the concluding chapters, we shift our focus to Amazon Lex and messaging chatbots. We will explore Alexa, learn about DynamoDB databases, and add cards to user conversations.By the end of this book, you will have explored a full set of technologies that will enable you to create your own voice and messaging chatbots using Amazon.
Tomasz Adamski
The book starts by introducing you to WildFly Swarm—a tool that allows you to create runnable microservices from Java EE components. You’ll learn the basics of Swarm operation—creating microservices containing only the parts of enterprise runtime needed in a specific case. Later, you’ll learn how to configure and test those services.In order to deploy our services in the cloud, we’ll use OpenShift. You’ll get to know basic information on its architecture, features, and relationship to Docker and Kubernetes. Later, you’ll learn how to deploy and configure your services to run in the OpenShift cloud.In the last part of the book, you’ll see how to make your application production-ready. You’ll find out how to configure continuous integration for your services using Jenkins, make your application resistant to network failures using Hystrix, and how to secure them using Keycloak. By the end of the book, you’ll have a functional example application and will have practical knowledge of Java EE cloud development that can be used as a reference in your other projects.
Kashyap Mukkamala
Data structures and algorithms are the fundamental building blocks of computer programming. They are critical to any problem, provide a complete solution, and act like reusable code. Using appropriate data structures and having a good understanding of algorithm analysis are key in JavaScript to solving crises and ensuring your application is less prone to errors.Do you want to build applications that are high-performing and fast? Are you looking for complete solutions to implement complex data structures and algorithms in a practical way? If either of these questions rings a bell, then this book is for you!You'll start by building stacks and understanding performance and memory implications. You will learn how to pick the right type of queue for the application. You will then use sets, maps, trees, and graphs to simplify complex applications. You will learn to implement different types of sorting algorithm before gradually calculating and analyzing space and time complexity. Finally, you'll increase the performance of your application using micro optimizations and memory management.By the end of the book you will have gained the skills and expertise necessary to create and employ various data structures in a way that is demanded by your project or use case.