[Free] Advanced Backend Web Development

We will also look at the basics of Coffeescript, a quick and powerful way to write Javascript. – Free Course

Added on May 10, 2024 Development 2 min read

What you’ll learn

Course Goal: Learn how to improve development productivity with task runners and preprocessors
Use Sockets for real-time client-server communication
Use CoffeeScript to improve writing JavaScript
Automate multiple tasks using Grunt

Requirements

Introduction to JavaScript Development
Intermediate JavaScript Development
Introduction to Node.js Development
Advanced JavaScript Development
Advanced Node.js Development

Description

In this course we examine several technologies. The first is Grunt. Grunt is a task runner which is a way for us to implement a build system to handle writing our code in different languages, preprocessing, minifying our code, and doing unit testing — all automated. Well also take a look at Coffeescript, which is a preprocessor for Javascript. It follows a lot of similar structures to Python and is very, very popular.

Finally, well discuss Sockets. Sockets are a way for us to open a constant connection between the server and the client. Normally when you make a request, the request goes up and then comes down with the data. With a socket, that request goes up and stays open, allowing the server to send data whenever it wants and the client to send data whenever it wants.

So, we can make real time applications using sockets and well take a look at how to implement a very simple system using socket IO.

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