Welcome

Thank you for buying the MEAP for The Transparent Web: Functional, Reactive, Isomorphic. If the title isn't enough of a hint, this book is a little bit unlike many other tech books. It is a broad survey of what's on the horizon of web development.

This book requires a bit of programming experience. Whether you have created a handful of sites or you have many more under your belt, this is for you. You'll also need a dash of curiosity to get the most out of it. More concretely, I assume a little bit of object-oriented programming experience as well.

This MEAP starts with chapters 1, 2, and 5. Chapter 1 is a broad overview of all the concepts in the book. Chapter 2 dives into writing an application using an isomorphic web framework, Opa. And chapter 5 looks into what modern static typing brings to the table.