Hands-On RESTful Web Services with TypeScript 3. Design and develop scalable RESTful APIs for your applications

Biharck Muniz Araújo

In the world of web development, leveraging data is the key to developing comprehensive applications, and RESTful APIs help you to achieve this systematically. This book will guide you in designing and developing web services with the power of TypeScript 3 and Node.js. You'll design REST APIs using best practices for request handling, validation, authentication, and authorization. You'll also understand how to enhance the capabilities of your APIs with ODMs, databases, models and views, as well as asynchronous callbacks. This book will guide you in securing your environment by testing your services and initiating test automation with different testing approaches. Furthermore, you'll get to grips with developing secure, testable, and more efficient code, and be able to scale and deploy TypeScript 3 and Node.js-powered RESTful APIs on cloud platforms such as the Google Cloud Platform. Finally, the book will help you explore microservices and give you an overview of what GraphQL can allow you to do.By the end of this book, you will be able to use RESTful web services to create your APIs for mobile and web apps and other platforms.

Hands-On Robotics with JavaScript. Build robotic projects using Johnny-Five and control hardware with JavaScript and Raspberry Pi

Kassandra Perch

JavaScript has an effective set of frameworks and libraries that provide support for embedded device programming and the robotics ecosystem. You’ll be able to put your JavaScript knowledge to work with this practical robotics guide.The book starts by guiding you in setting up an environment to program robots with JavaScript and Rasberry Pi 3. You will build beginner-level projects, such as a line-following robot, and then upgrade your robotics skills with a series of projects that help you get to grips with the Johnny-Five library. As you progress, you’ll learn how you can improve your projects by enabling advanced hardware components and programming concepts. You’ll even build an advanced AI-enabled robot, connect its NodeBots to the internet, create a NodeBots Swarm, and explore Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT).By the end of this book, you will have enhanced your robot programming skills by building a range of simple to complex projects.

Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift. Build dynamic web apps by leveraging two popular Swift web frameworks: Vapor 3.0 and Kitura 2.5

Angus Yeung

This book is about building professional web applications and web services using Swift 4.0 and leveraging two popular Swift web frameworks: Vapor 3.0 and Kitura 2.5. In the first part of this book, we’ll focus on the creation of basic web applications from Vapor and Kitura boilerplate projects. As the web apps start out simple, more useful techniques, such as unit test development, debugging, logging, and the build and release process, will be introduced to readers.In the second part, we’ll learn different aspects of web application development with server-side Swift, including setting up routes and controllers to process custom client requests, working with template engines such as Leaf and Stencil to create dynamic web content, beautifying the content with Bootstrap, managing user access with authentication framework, and leveraging the Object Relational Mapping (ORM) abstraction layer (Vapor’s Fluent and Kitura’s Kuery) to perform database operations.Finally, in the third part, we’ll develop web services in Swift and build our API Gateway, microservices and database backend in a three-tier architecture design. Readers will learn how to design RESTful APIs, work with asynchronous processes, and leverage container technology such as Docker in deploying microservices to cloud hosting services such as Vapor Cloud and IBM Cloud.

Hands-On TypeScript for C# and .NET Core Developers. Transition from C# to TypeScript 3.1 and build applications with ASP.NET Core 2

Francesco Abbruzzese

Writing clean, object-oriented code in JavaScript gets trickier and complex as the size of the project grows. This is where Typescript comes into the picture; it lets you write pure object-oriented code with ease, giving it the upper hand over JavaScript. This book introduces you to basic TypeScript concepts by gradually modifying standard JavaScript code, which makes learning TypeScript easy for C# ASP.NET developers.As you progress through the chapters, you'll cover object programming concepts, such as classes, interfaces, and generics, and understand how they are related to, and similar in, both ES6 and C#. You will also learn how to use bundlers like WebPack to package your code and other resources. The book explains all concepts using practical examples of ASP.NET Core projects, and reusable TypeScript libraries. Finally, you'll explore the features that TypeScript inherits from either ES6 or C#, or both of them, such as Symbols, Iterables, Promises, and Decorators.By the end of the book, you'll be able to apply all TypeScript concepts to understand the Angular framework better, and you'll have become comfortable with the way in which modules, components, and services are defined and used in Angular. You'll also have gained a good understanding of all the features included in the Angular/ASP.NET Core Visual Studio project template.

Hands-On UX Design for Developers. Design, prototype, and implement compelling user experiences from scratch

Elvis Canziba

Designing user experience (UX) is one of the most important aspects of a project, as it has a direct effect on how customers think of your company. The process of designing a user experience is one of the most challenging yet rewarding aspects of product development. Hands-On UX Design for Developers will teach you how to create amazing user experiences for products from scratch.This book starts with helping you understand the importance of a good UX design and the role of a UX designer. It will take you through the different stages of designing a UX and the application of various principles of psychology in UX design. Next, you will learn how to conduct user research and market research, which is crucial to creating a great UX. You will also learn how to create user personas and use it for testing. This book will help you gain the ability to think like a UX designer and understand both sides of product development: design and coding. You will explore the latest tools, such as Sketch, Balsamiq, and Framer.js, to create wireframes and prototypes. The concluding chapters will take you through designing your UI, dealing with big data while designing a UX, and the fundamentals of frontend. Finally, you'll prepare your portfolio and become job ready in the UX arena.

Hands-On Visual Studio 2022. A developer's guide to new features and best practices with .NET 8 and VS 2022 for maximum productivity - Second Edition

Hector Uriel Perez Rojas, Miguel Angel Teheran Garcia

Visual Studio 2022 is widely recognized as the best IDE for application development across various domains. This book is a comprehensive guide for both beginners and experienced .NET developers who wish to familiarize themselves with its basic, advanced, and new features.This book is divided into three sections: the first is an overview of Visual Studio, the second part explores tools for productivity within the IDE, and the third delves into integration with GitHub and Visual Studio extensions.In this second edition, we’ve also expanded the chapters on the use of Visual Studio to environments beyond web development, such as Azure, Desktop, .NET MAUI, and others. Updates to the IDE introduced since the release year of the first edition of the book in 2022 have also been included, such as the use of GPT-based extensions like GitHub Copilot and GitHub Copilot Chat, as well as profiling tools.The book reviews breakpoint groups, a new way to configure breakpoints, as well as tools for web development, such as Browser Link, Dev Tunnels, and Web API Endpoints Explorer. For more advanced developers, the book addresses the topic of developing extensions through the use of the new Visual Studio SDK. By the end of this book, you’ll have a better understanding of Visual Studio 2022 and how to use it to its fullest potential.

Hands-On Web Scraping with Python. Extract quality data from the web using effective Python techniques - Second Edition

Anish Chapagain

Web scraping is a powerful tool for extracting data from the web, but it can be daunting for those without a technical background. Designed for novices, this book will help you grasp the fundamentals of web scraping and Python programming, even if you have no prior experience.Adopting a practical, hands-on approach, this updated edition of Hands-On Web Scraping with Python uses real-world examples and exercises to explain key concepts. Starting with an introduction to web scraping fundamentals and Python programming, you’ll cover a range of scraping techniques, including requests, lxml, pyquery, Scrapy, and Beautiful Soup. You’ll also get to grips with advanced topics such as secure web handling, web APIs, Selenium for web scraping, PDF extraction, regex, data analysis, EDA reports, visualization, and machine learning.This book emphasizes the importance of learning by doing. Each chapter integrates examples that demonstrate practical techniques and related skills. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the skills to extract data from websites, a solid understanding of web scraping and Python programming, and the confidence to use these skills in your projects for analysis, visualization, and information discovery.

Hartowanie Linuksa we wrogich środowiskach sieciowych. Ochrona serwera od TLS po Tor

Kyle Rankin

Bezpieczeństwo serwerów - od TLS do TOR W dzisiejszym świecie, w którym wiele codziennych aktywności odbywa się przez internet, bardzo dużo zależy od bezpieczeństwa serwerów. Kiedy zwykli ludzie tworzą społeczności, komunikują się i robią zakupy online, hakerzy niestrudzenie przeglądają sieć, poszukując słabych punktów. Atakują różne obiekty: mogą to być agencje rządowe, elektrownie i banki, ale równie dobrze ich celem może się stać jakakolwiek sieć komputerów. Chodzi o uzyskanie wrażliwych informacji, zbiorów danych osobowych czy wreszcie przejęcie kontroli nad systemem. Co gorsza, agresorzy odnoszą sukcesy nawet w przypadku sieci, w których wdrożono złożone i kosztowne zabezpieczenia. Dzięki tej książce poznasz sprawdzone i niezbyt skomplikowane procedury, które pozwolą Ci na zahartowanie swoich danych. Zawarte tu treści przedstawiono w sposób bardzo praktyczny, z uwzględnieniem najnowszych osiągnięć w dziedzinie zabezpieczania systemów. Najpierw zapoznasz się z ogólnym ujęciem tematyki bezpieczeństwa systemów, w tym stacji roboczych, serwerów i sieci. Następnie dowiesz się, w jaki sposób zahartować specyficzne usługi, takie jak serwery WWW, pocztę elektroniczną, systemy DNS i bazy danych. Na końcu książki znalazł się rozdział poświęcony reagowaniu na incydenty - to również jest wiedza potrzebna każdemu administratorowi. Najciekawsze zagadnienia: Hartowanie stacji roboczych, w tym stacji roboczych administratorów Zabezpieczanie infrastruktury i ustawienie zapory sieciowej Zaawansowane hartowanie serwerów poczty elektronicznej Korzystanie z podstawowych i zaawansowanych właściwości usługi DNS Poruszanie się w sieci TOR Po pierwsze: zabezpiecz swoją sieć i zahartuj swój system! Kyle Rankin od wielu lat zajmuje się administrowaniem systemów informatycznych. Jest uznanym ekspertem w dziedzinie zabezpieczania infrastruktury, architektury, automatyzacji i rozwiązywania problemów z tym związanych. Rankin jest nagradzanym felietonistą magazynu "Linux Journal" i przewodniczącym rady doradczej Purism. Często wygłasza referaty na konferencjach poświęconych oprogramowaniu open source i bezpieczeństwu, takich jak O'Reilly Security Conference, CactusCon, SCALE, OSCON, LinuxWorld Expo, Penguicon.