Preface

Josh and I met when I was job hunting and he offered me a web architect position in the summer of 2011. Though I ultimately decided to take another offer, we got along really well and had some interesting discussions about single page web applications (SPAs) and the future of the internet. One day, Josh naively suggested we write a book together. I foolishly agreed, and we sealed our collective fates for hundreds of weekends to come. We expected this would be a rather slim book, under 300 pages. The idea was to provide an over-the-shoulder view of an experienced developer creating a production-ready SPA using JavaScript end-to-end. We would use only best-in-class tools and techniques to provide a world-class user experience. The concepts would apply to anyone developing a JavaScript SPA, whether they developed it as we do in the book, or decided to use one of the framework libraries that are available.