
High Performance Responsive Design
Building Faster Sites Across Devices
Tom Barker(Author)
O'Reilly (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. December 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
169 pages
978-1-4919-4998-6 (ISBN)
Description
Yes, you can use responsive web design to create high performance, compelling websites. With this practical book, author Tom Barker demonstrates that responsive design is not just a frontend-only approach, but also a philosophy for taking advantage of the entire web stack. Responsive design patterns and anti-patterns, derived from heavily used real-world sites, are guiding principles throughout the book.
Ideal for frontend-focused web developers, this book shows you how to incorporate responsiveness and performance into your project plan, use Node.js for device-specific functionality on the backend, and write automated tests for a continuous integration environment. You'll explore many useful tools and responsive frameworks, and gain useful insights from Barker's own experience with responsive design along the way.
* Get a primer on web performance concepts, web runtime performance, and performance tracking tools
* Write functionality with Node.js that serves up a device-specific experience to the client
* Explore client-side solutions, such as lazy loading entire sections of a page-including images, styling, and content
* Validate service level agreements (SLAs) by writing automated tests with PhantomJS
* Examine several responsive frameworks, including the author's server-side framework, Ripple
Ideal for frontend-focused web developers, this book shows you how to incorporate responsiveness and performance into your project plan, use Node.js for device-specific functionality on the backend, and write automated tests for a continuous integration environment. You'll explore many useful tools and responsive frameworks, and gain useful insights from Barker's own experience with responsive design along the way.
* Get a primer on web performance concepts, web runtime performance, and performance tracking tools
* Write functionality with Node.js that serves up a device-specific experience to the client
* Explore client-side solutions, such as lazy loading entire sections of a page-including images, styling, and content
* Validate service level agreements (SLAs) by writing automated tests with PhantomJS
* Examine several responsive frameworks, including the author's server-side framework, Ripple
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4919-4998-6 (9781491949986)
Schweitzer Classification
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11/2014
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Person
Tom Barker is a software engineer, solutions architect and technical manager with over a decade of experience working with ActionScript, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, and the Microsoft .Net Framework. Currently he is a Lead Developer and Engineering Manager at Comcast Interactive Media. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Philadelphia University where he has been teaching undergrad and graduate courses on web development since 2003. When not working and teaching, Tom likes to spend time with his two children, read, and play video games until very early in the morning.