Web App Resources

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Overview

This page provides resources pertaining to web app development. This includes topics such as server- and client-side frameworks, as well as useful libraries.

Server-side

• LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP‐extremely common web app "stack"
• Dynamic web page generate / CGI (common gateway interface) languages
  • PHP
  • Perl
  • Ruby
  • Scala
  • Python
  • Java
  • C++
  • ASP.NET
  • ColdFusion
  • JavaScript
  • Haskell
  • C#
  • ...
• Select frameworks
  • PHP:
    • a nice overview of popular PHP frameworks; see this page for another list of PHP frameworks
    • CodeIgniter
    • Laravel
    • Phalcon
    • CakePHP
  • Ruby:
    • see this page for a nice comparison
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Rack
    • Padrino
  • .NET (ASP)
  • JavaServer Faces (Java)
  • Lift (Scala)
  • Drupal (PHP)
  • Django (Python)
  • See this page for more

Client-side

• HTML5 specification + JavaScript (see this page for more info)
  • not all features are supported by all browsers
  • local storage (IndexedDB, Storage)
  • data attributions (e.g., <div data-time="March 1, 2014">...)
  • canvas support for drawing
  • video formats
  • file upload/drag and drop
• Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML)
• JavaScript libraries/frameworkds
  • This page has a good overview
  • jQuery / jQueryUI
  • YUI (Yahoo! User Interface)
  • AngularJS
  • Dojo
  • Lots of graphing libraries: D3, Flot, Google Charts, HighCharts
• JavaScript compilers/replacements (usually compile to JavaScript)
  • This page has a nice list of them
  • CoffeeScript
  • Dart
  • Coco
  • EmberScript
  • TypeScript

Interaction Architectures

• Links:
  • Interactive Application Architecture Patterns (blog post)
  • GUI Architectures
  • A video about MVC in Ruby on Rails
• Model-View-Controller (MVC)
• RESTful (REsource State Transfer)

Open-source Databases

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• MariaDB
• SQLite
• MongoDB
• CouchDB