Fluent Web Development

With this book, you'll grasp the consequences of architectural and technical decisions and examine web apps from every angle, enabling the creation of long-lasting solutions, faster bug detection, and the ability to deliver focused, high-impact code reviews.

Navigating the web development landscape can be bewildering. The terrain is crowded with frameworks, each claiming to be the one true solution. And framework vendors often introduce new acronyms for existing techniques and paradigms, which adds to the confusion. In this hype-driven environment, senior engineers must make technology choices that will impact projects for years, with little room for failure. Fluent Web Development takes engineers on a deep dive beyond the hype to the core of web application development. With this book, you'll grasp the consequences of architectural and technical decisions and examine web apps from every angle, enabling the creation of long-lasting solutions, faster bug detection, and the ability to deliver focused, high-impact code reviews. With this knowledge, you'll zero in on what truly matters for your projects. Understand what web development frameworks and libraries doLearn how tooling and dependencies can make or break a projectExplore the intricacies of every part of the stack and how everything plays togetherPlan web projects long-term and design for maintainable, flexible, and robust solutionsConfigure every part of the stack, from backend to frontend