What this book covers

Chapter 1, Breaking into Microservices Architecture, teaches what the microservices architecture is and why enterprise-level applications are built using it. We will then explore Seneca.js, which is a microservices toolkit for Node.js.

Chapter 2, Building a Coupon Site, shows you how to build a basic coupon site to demonstrate Seneca.js and the microservices architecture.

Chapter 3, Communication between Browsers in Real Time, teaches you what WebRTC is and how to use it to implement features such as audio/video chat or some other features in websites that need real-time browser-to-browser data transfer or to retrieve audio/video streams from microphones, webcams, or any other device. We will learn to write WebRTC-based applications using PeerJS, which simplifies WebRTC-based application development.

Chapter 4, Building a Chatroulette, shows you how to build a chatroulette to demonstrate WebRTC and PeerJS.

Chapter 5, Bidirectional Communication in Real Time, teaches what WebSockets are and how to achieve bidirectional communication in real-time using WebSockets. We will then explore Socket.IO, which utilizes WebSockets to enable bidirectional communication in real time.

Chapter 6, Building a Live Score Site, shows you how to build a simple live-score site using Socket.IO.

Chapter 7, Functional Reactive Programming, teaches you reactive code and how to write better reactive code using functional reactive programming. We will then explore Bacon.js, which is a functional reactive programming library for JavaScript.

Chapter 8, Building an Advanced Profile Search Widget, helps you build an advanced profile-search widget using Bacon.js.

Chapter 9, New Features of Bootstrap 4, teaches you what's new in Bootstrap 4 and how it makes it easier then ever to create responsive sites.

Chapter 10, Building User Interfaces Using React, teaches you what React.js is and how it makes writing of code for reactive UI easier and takes care of rendering performance and reusability.

Chapter 11, Building an RSS Reader Using React and Flux, shows you how to build a simple RSS reader using React and the Flux architecture.

Chapter 12, New Features of Angular 2, teaches you how to use Angular 2 to build the client side of websites. We will also learn about web components in this chapter.

Chapter 13, Building a Search Engine Template Using AngularJS 2, shows you how to build a search engine template using Angular 2. We will also learn how to build an SPA using Angular 2.

Chapter 14, Securing and Scaling Node.js Applications, teaches you how to make Node.js applications more secure and what the common technologies used for scaling Node.js applications are.