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    WebSocket Essentials – Building Apps with HTML5 WebSockets
    WebSocket Essentials – Building Apps with HTML5 WebSockets
    WebSocket Essentials – Building Apps with HTML5 WebSockets
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    WebSocket Essentials – Building Apps with HTML5 WebSockets

    By Varun Chopra

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    About This Book
    • Learn to build your real-time collaborative application for mobiles and tablets using WebSockets
    • Set up your own WebSocket server and familiarize yourself with the combined power of WebSockets with HTML5
    • A practical guide, accompanied by examples, which will help you to understand the working of the Node.js WebSocket server
    Who This Book Is For

    This book is for web developers who want to learn and implement WebSocket to create interesting apps for modern browsers, leveraging the capabilities of HTML5 with WebSockets.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateMay 6, 2015
    ISBN9781784395001
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      WebSocket Essentials – Building Apps with HTML5 WebSockets - Varun Chopra

      Table of Contents

      WebSocket Essentials – Building Apps with HTML5 WebSockets

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

      Why subscribe?

      Free access for Packt account holders

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Introducing the World of Web App

      What is the Web?

      Web applications

      Where does WebSockets fit?

      WebSockets over other methods

      Modern browsers

      HTML

      HTML5 – the modern Web standard

      Media – audio/video

      Canvas

      Form elements

      Semantics

      Mobile first

      Offline storage

      Geolocation

      Drag and drop

      Web workers

      JavaScript

      Modern servers

      WebSockets

      Summary

      2. Getting Started with WebSockets

      Why WebSockets?

      Importance of WebSockets

      When to use?

      How it works?

      WebSocket API

      Ready states

      Events

      Echo Test

      The WebSockets client app

      Instantiation

      Adding events

      Sending messages

      Receiving messages

      Closing the connection

      The WebSocket server

      The Node.js server

      Summary

      3. Configuring the Server and Transferring Real-time Data

      Full-duplex real-time data transfer

      Foundation of real-time applications

      Collaborative presentation application

      The presentation library

      Setting up the library

      Adding collaboration

      Code implementation

      The client code

      Code explanation

      The server code

      Code explanation

      Do it yourself

      Input username

      The list of users

      User-based authorization to change the presentation

      Making the user the presenter

      Tips and tricks

      Summary

      4. Using WebSockets in Real Scenario

      The real scenario

      The JavaScript framework

      AngularJS

      Learn by doing

      The collaborative drawing application

      Requirements

      The drawing library

      The client application

      Integrating with the server

      The client code

      Code explanation

      The server code

      Code explanation

      Do it yourself

      User registration

      The list of users

      Share with specific users

      Save drawings

      The application structure

      Restructure the application

      Model

      View

      Controller

      Service

      Summary

      5. WebSockets for Mobile and Tablet

      Mobile devices and the WebSocket

      Pusher

      Socket.IO

      Running server on mobile

      Local server on mobile

      Mobile output

      Browser support

      Do it yourself

      Scenario 1

      Scenario 2

      Scenario 3

      Summary

      6. Enhancing HTML5 Web Application Development Using Modern Tools

      Modern tools and techniques

      Code editors

      Boilerplates

      Packaging tools

      Build tools

      Application frameworks

      Modern servers

      Responsive web design

      The MEAN stack

      Summary

      Index

      WebSocket Essentials – Building Apps with HTML5 WebSockets

      WebSocket Essentials – Building Apps with HTML5 WebSockets

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      Credits

      Author

      Varun Chopra

      Reviewers

      Adir Amsalem

      Sann-Remy Chea

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      About the Author

      Varun Chopra has a lot of experience in the design and development of enterprise applications. He has worked as a consultant and has extensive experience in integrating different technologies. Besides his love of technology, he is also a singer and a guitarist and loves gadgets.

      About the Reviewers

      Adir Amsalem is a software engineer from Israel. Since the age of 16, he has loved developing websites and web apps, reading about technology, and solving technological challenges. He currently works for a major financial institution, where he leads web and frontend development of several products. Previously, he was a web developer and frontend developer at several Israeli companies and was also a freelancer.

      Sann-Remy Chea works as a software engineer at Ubisoft Owlient, a video game company specializing in web and mobile games, based in Paris, France. He has also worked at IBM as an application architect intern. Fond of web application development, he specializes in JavaScript and Node.js.

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      Preface

      HTML, the most important part of web development, was lacking somewhere, but now developers are returning to HTML5 because of its enhancements and features, giving them a new experience of development. WebSocket support on different browsers made it easier to develop web applications with a lot of features.

      Data communication between the client and the server is one of the most important parts of any web application. Almost all browsers support WebSockets, which makes it more powerful and available. Developers always want to build their application on a concrete ground so that it is reliable for users. WebSocket makes this possible now. With HTML5 enhancements, it is being accepted and appreciated widely

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