Front-End Web Development: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Big Nerd Ranch's front-end development guide brings together the skills you need to succeed in modern front-end development. After reading this book, you will be able to harness JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3 in order to build rich web experiences, modern websites and outstanding apps.

You will build code that targets the browser platform available on nearly every phone, tablet and computer. You will build a series of projects as you work through the book, learning a range of technologies necessary to becone a proficient front-end developer.

You'll learn how to:

1. implement responsive UIs
2. access remote web services
3. architect apps with Ember.js
4. debug and test your code with cutting-edge development tools
5. harness Node.js and today's powerful npm open-source modules

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Chapter 1: Setting Up Your Development Environment
3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your First Project
4. Chapter 3: Styles
5. Chapter 4: Responsive Layouts with Flexbox
6. Chapter 5: Adative Layouts with Media Queries
7. Chapter 6: Handling Events with JavaScript
8. Chapter 7: Visual Effects with CSS
9. Chapter 8: Modules, Objects and Methods
10. Chapter 9: Introduction to Bootstrap
11. Chapter 10: Processing Forms with JavaScript
12. Chapter 11: From Data to DOM
13. Chapter 12: Validating Forms
14. Chapter 13: Ajax
15. Chapter 14: Deferreds and Promises
16. Chapter 15: Introduction to Node.js
17. Chapter 16: Real-Time Communication with WebSockets
18. Chapter 17: Using ES6 with Babel
19. Chapter 18: ES6, the Adventure Continues
20. Chapter 19: Introduction to MVC and Ember
21. Chapter 20: Routing, Routes and Models
22. Chapter 21: Models and Data Binding
23. Chapter 22: Data: Adapters, Serializers and Transforms
24. Chapter 23: Views and Templates
25. Chapter 24: Controllers
26. Chapter 25: Components
27. Chapter 26: Afterword