It’s no longer enough to know how to wrangle HTML, CSS, and a bit of Java- Script. Today’s web developer needs to know how to write testable code, build interactive interfaces, integrate with other services, and sometimes even do some server configuration, or at least a little bit of backend work. This book is a collection of more than forty practical recipes that range from clever CSS tricks that will make your clients happy to server-side configurations that will make life easier for you and your users. You’ll find a mix of tried-and-true techniques and cutting-edge solutions, all aimed at helping you truly discover the best tools for the job.

Who’s This Book For?

If you make things on the Web, this book is for you. If you’re a web designer or frontend developer who’s looking to expand into other areas of web development, you’ll get a chance to play with some new libraries and workflows that will help you be more productive, and you’ll get exposed to a little bit of that server-side stuff along the way.

If you’ve been spending a lot of time on the backend and you need to get up to speed on some frontend techniques, you’ll find some good recipes here as well, especially the sections on workflow and testing.

One last thing—a lot of these recipes assume you’ve had a little experience writing client-side code with JavaScript and jQuery. If you don’t think you have that experience, read through the recipes anyway and pick apart the provided source code. Consider the more advanced recipes as a challenge.