An Introduction to Web Development from Back to Front

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Introduction

This is a comprehensive introduction to web development. In this 'book' you will learn about some modern web dev languages (Javascript, HTML, CSS) and tools (npm, Node, Express, SQLite, Mongo, Bootstrap, React, Firebase, GraphQL). I will guide you through creating back end servers, web pages, APIs, and much more. The focus will be on running programs. This is a book of 'playbacks' that show you how I built up these programs. Along the way I describe the changes that I am making.

This is not an introduction to programming. Some past programming experience is required as I will not be covering basic topics such as if statements, loops, and functions. However, if you have some experience programming I think you should be able to get a lot out of this book. I use this material when I teach a college-level course on web development.

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Chapter 1 Javascript

1.1 Ancient Javascript

1.2 Modern Javascript

1.3 Javascript and Types

1.4 Closures

1.5 Classes in Javascript

1.6 Promises and async/await

1.7 More with async and await

Chapter 2 The Back End- Node, Express, Sqlite, and Mongo

2.1 Node Modules and npm

2.2 Creating Your Own Modules

2.3 The Http Module