Leverage the power of the Reinforcement Learning techniques to develop self-learning systems using Tensorflow About This Book ? Learn reinforcement learning concepts and their implementation using TensorFlow ? Discover different problem-solving methods for Reinforcement Learning ? Apply reinforcement learning for autonomous driving cars, robobrokers, and more Who This Book Is For If you want to get started with reinforcement learning using TensorFlow in the most practical way, this book will be a useful resource. The book assumes prior knowledge of machine learning and neural network programming concepts, as well as some understanding of the TensorFlow framework. No previous experience with Reinforcement Learning is required. What You Will Learn ? Implement state-of-the-art Reinforcement Learning algorithms from the basics ? Discover various techniques of Reinforcement Learning such as MDP, Q Learning and more ? Learn the applications of Reinforcement Learning in advertisement, image processing, and NLP ? Teach a Reinforcement Learning model to play a game using TensorFlow and the OpenAI gym ? Understand how Reinforcement Learning Applications are used in robotics In Detail Reinforcement Learning (RL), allows you to develop smart, quick and self-learning systems in your business surroundings. It is an effective method to train your learning agents and solve a variety of problems in Artificial Intelligence—from games, self-driving cars and robots to enterprise applications that range from datacenter energy saving (cooling data centers) to smart warehousing solutions. The book covers the major advancements and successes achieved in deep reinforcement learning by synergizing deep neural network architectures with reinforcement learning. The book also introduces readers to the concept of Reinforcement Learning, its advantages and why it’s gaining so much popularity. The book also discusses on MDPs, Monte Carlo tree searches, dynamic programming such as policy and value iteration, temporal difference learning such as Q-learning and SARSA. You will use TensorFlow and OpenAI Gym to build simple neural network models that learn from their own actions. You will also see how reinforcement learning algorithms play a role in games, image processing and NLP. By the end of this book, you will have a firm understanding of what reinforcement learning is and how to put your knowledge to practical use by leveraging the power of TensorFlow and OpenAI Gym. Style and approach An Easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to help you get to grips with real-world applications of Reinforcement Learning with TensorFlow.

Learn how to build efficient, secure and robust code in C++ by using data structures and algorithms - the building blocks of C++ About This Book ? Use data structures such as arrays, stacks, trees, lists, and graphs with real-world examples ? Learn the functional and reactive implementations of the traditional data structures ? Explore illustrations to present data structures and algorithms, as well as their analysis, in a clear, visual manner Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who would like to learn the Data Structures and Algorithms in C++. Basic C++ programming knowledge is expected. What You Will Learn ? Know how to use arrays and lists to get better results in complex scenarios ? Build enhanced applications by using hashtables, dictionaries, and sets ? Implement searching algorithms such as linear search, binary search, jump search, exponential search, and more ? Have a positive impact on the efficiency of applications with tree traversal ? Explore the design used in sorting algorithms like Heap sort, Quick sort, Merge sort and Radix sort ? Implement various common algorithms in string data types ? Find out how to design an algorithm for a specific task using the common algorithm paradigms In Detail C++ is a general-purpose programming language which has evolved over the years and is used to develop software for many different sectors. This book will be your companion as it takes you through implementing classic data structures and algorithms to help you get up and running as a confident C++ programmer. We begin with an introduction to C++ data structures and algorithms while also covering essential language constructs. Next, we will see how to store data using linked lists, arrays, stacks, and queues. Then, we will learn how to implement different sorting algorithms, such as quick sort and heap sort. Along with these, we will dive into searching algorithms such as linear search, binary search and more. Our next mission will be to attain high performance by implementing algorithms to string datatypes and implementing hash structures in algorithm design. We'll also analyze Brute Force algorithms, Greedy algorithms, and more. By the end of the book, you'll know how to build components that are easy to understand, debug, and use in different applications. Style and approach Readers will be taken through an indispensable list of data structures and algorithms so they can confidently begin coding in C++.

Automate data and model pipelines for faster machine learning applications About This Book ? Build automated modules for different machine learning components ? Understand each component of a machine learning pipeline in depth ? Learn to use different open source AutoML and feature engineering platforms Who This Book Is For If you’re a budding data scientist, data analyst, or Machine Learning enthusiast and are new to the concept of automated machine learning, this book is ideal for you. You’ll also find this book useful if you’re an ML engineer or data professional interested in developing quick machine learning pipelines for your projects. Prior exposure to Python programming will help you get the best out of this book. What You Will Learn ? Understand the fundamentals of Automated Machine Learning systems ? Explore auto-sklearn and MLBox for AutoML tasks ? Automate your preprocessing methods along with feature transformation ? Enhance feature selection and generation using the Python stack ? Assemble individual components of ML into a complete AutoML framework ? Demystify hyperparameter tuning to optimize your ML models ? Dive into Machine Learning concepts such as neural networks and autoencoders ? Understand the information costs and trade-offs associated with AutoML In Detail AutoML is designed to automate parts of Machine Learning. Readily available AutoML tools are making data science practitioners’ work easy and are received well in the advanced analytics community. Automated Machine Learning covers the necessary foundation needed to create automated machine learning modules and helps you get up to speed with them in the most practical way possible. In this book, you’ll learn how to automate different tasks in the machine learning pipeline such as data preprocessing, feature selection, model training, model optimization, and much more. In addition to this, it demonstrates how you can use the available automation libraries, such as auto-sklearn and MLBox, and create and extend your own custom AutoML components for Machine Learning. By the end of this book, you will have a clearer understanding of the different aspects of automated Machine Learning, and you’ll be able to incorporate automation tasks using practical datasets. You can leverage your learning from this book to implement Machine Learning in your projects and get a step closer to winning various machine learning competitions. Style and approach Step by step approach to understand how to automate your machine learning tasks

Over 100 recipes to analyze and troubleshoot network problems using Wireshark 2 About This Book ? Place Wireshark 2 in your network and configure it for effective network analysis ? Deep dive into the enhanced functionalities of Wireshark 2 and protect your network with ease ? A practical guide with exciting recipes on a widely used network protocol analyzer Who This Book Is For This book is for security professionals, network administrators, R&D, engineering and technical support, and communications managers who are using Wireshark for network analysis and troubleshooting. It requires a basic understanding of networking concepts, but does not require specific and detailed technical knowledge of protocols or vendor implementations. What You Will Learn ? Configure Wireshark 2 for effective network analysis and troubleshooting ? Set up various display and capture filters ? Understand networking layers, including IPv4 and IPv6 analysis ? Explore performance issues in TCP/IP ? Get to know about Wi-Fi testing and how to resolve problems related to wireless LANs ? Get information about network phenomena, events, and errors ? Locate faults in detecting security failures and breaches in networks In Detail This book contains practical recipes on troubleshooting a data communications network. This second version of the book focuses on Wireshark 2, which has already gained a lot of traction due to the enhanced features that it offers to users. The book expands on some of the subjects explored in the first version, including TCP performance, network security, Wireless LAN, and how to use Wireshark for cloud and virtual system monitoring. You will learn how to analyze end-to-end IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity failures for Unicast and Multicast traffic using Wireshark. It also includes Wireshark capture files so that you can practice what you’ve learned in the book. You will understand the normal operation of E-mail protocols and learn how to use Wireshark for basic analysis and troubleshooting. Using Wireshark, you will be able to resolve and troubleshoot common applications that are used in an enterprise network, like NetBIOS and SMB protocols. Finally, you will also be able to measure network parameters, check for network problems caused by them, and solve them effectively. By the end of this book, you’ll know how to analyze traffic, find patterns of various offending traffic, and secure your network from them. Style and approach This book consists of practical recipes on Wireshark 2 that target novices as well as intermediate Wireshark users. It goes deep into the technical issues, covers additional protocols, and many more real-live examples so that you are able to implement it in your daily life scenarios.

Secure public and private cloud workloads with this comprehensive learning guide. About This Book ? Take your cloud security functions to the next level by automation ? Learn to automate your security functions on AWS and OpenStack ? Practical approach towards securing your workloads efficiently Who This Book Is For This book is targeted at DevOps Engineers, Security professionals, or any stakeholders responsible for securing cloud workloads. Prior experience with AWS or OpenStack will be an advantage. What You Will Learn ? Define security for public and private cloud services ? Address the security concerns of your cloud ? Understand Identity and Access Management ? Get acquainted with cloud storage and network security ? Improve and optimize public and private cloud security ? Automate cloud security ? Understand the security compliance requirements of your cloud In Detail Security issues are still a major concern for all IT organizations. For many enterprises, the move to cloud computing has raised concerns for security, but when applications are architected with focus on security, cloud platforms can be made just as secure as on-premises platforms. Cloud instances can be kept secure by employing security automation that helps make your data meet your organization's security policy. This book starts with the basics of why cloud security is important and how automation can be the most effective way of controlling cloud security. You will then delve deeper into the AWS cloud environment and its security services by dealing with security functions such as Identity and Access Management and will also learn how these services can be automated. Moving forward, you will come across aspects such as cloud storage and data security, automating cloud deployments, and so on. Then, you'll work with OpenStack security modules and learn how private cloud security functions can be automated for better time- and cost-effectiveness. Toward the end of the book, you will gain an understanding of the security compliance requirements for your Cloud. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience of automating your cloud security and governance. Style and approach This book follows a step-by-step, practical approach to help automate and secure your cloud account structure in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenStack environment.

Learn, by example, the fundamentals of data analysis as well as several intermediate to advanced methods and techniques ranging from classification and regression to Bayesian methods and MCMC, which can be put to immediate use. About This Book ? Analyze your data using R – the most powerful statistical programming language ? Learn how to implement applied statistics using practical use-cases ? Use popular R packages to work with unstructured and structured data Who This Book Is For Budding data scientists and data analysts who are new to the concept of data analysis, or who want to build efficient analytical models in R will find this book to be useful. No prior exposure to data analysis is needed, although a fundamental understanding of the R programming language is required to get the best out of this book. What You Will Learn ? Gain a thorough understanding of statistical reasoning and sampling theory ? Employ hypothesis testing to draw inferences from your data ? Learn Bayesian methods for estimating parameters ? Train regression, classification, and time series models ? Handle missing data gracefully using multiple imputation ? Identify and manage problematic data points ? Learn how to scale your analyses to larger data with Rcpp, data.table, dplyr, and parallelization ? Put best practices into effect to make your job easier and facilitate reproducibility In Detail Frequently the tool of choice for academics, R has spread deep into the private sector and can be found in the production pipelines at some of the most advanced and successful enterprises. The power and domain-specificity of R allows the user to express complex analytics easily, quickly, and succinctly. Starting with the basics of R and statistical reasoning, this book dives into advanced predictive analytics, showing how to apply those techniques to real-world data though with real-world examples. Packed with engaging problems and exercises, this book begins with a review of R and its syntax with packages like Rcpp, ggplot2, and dplyr. From there, get to grips with the fundamentals of applied statistics and build on this knowledge to perform sophisticated and powerful analytics. Solve the difficulties relating to performing data analysis in practice and find solutions to working with messy data, large data, communicating results, and facilitating reproducibility. This book is engineered to be an invaluable resource through many stages of anyone’s career as a data analyst. Style and approach An easy-to-follow step by step guide which will help you get to grips with real world application of Data Analysis with R

Fast track your development skills to build resourceful, open-source business applications with Odoo 11 About This Book ? Discover the latest technical capabilities in Odoo 11 while you build your own app ? Program business logic and manipulate data to implement specific business rules in your applications ? Implement automated tests to add modules and techniques and debug module business logic Who This Book Is For Odoo 11 Development Essentials caters to developers who are familiar with Python and MVC design and now want to build effective business applications using Odoo. What You Will Learn ? Install Odoo from source ? Manage Odoo server instances ? Create a new Odoo application from scratch covering the most frequently used elements ? Develop new models and use inheritance to extend/modify existing models ? Use ORM methods, both in the Odoo server and from external clients ? Create Kanban views using QWeb effectively ? Develop custom web and website CMS pages ? Use external API to integrate Odoo with external applications In Detail Odoo continues to gain worldwide momentum as the best platform for open source ERP installations. Now, with Odoo 11, you have access to an improved GUI, performance optimization, integrated in-app purchase features, and a fast-growing community to help transform and modernize your business. With this practical guide, you will cover all the new features that Odoo 11 has to offer to build and customize business applications, focusing on the publicly available community edition. We begin with setting up a development environment, and as you make your way through the chapters, you will learn to build feature-rich business applications. With the aim of jump-starting your Odoo proficiency level, from no specific knowledge to application development readiness, you will develop your first Odoo application. We then move on to topics such as models and views, and understand how to use server APIs to add business logic, helping to lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. The book concludes with Odoo interactions and how to use the Odoo API from other programs, all of which will enable you to efficiently integrate applications with other external systems. Style and Approach This fast-paced tutorial explains topics with the help of practical examples to help you understand each chapter efficiently.

Your one stop solution to implement a Cyber Defense Intelligence program in to your organisation. About This Book ? Intelligence processes and procedures for response mechanisms ? Master F3EAD to drive processes based on intelligence ? Threat modeling and intelligent frameworks ? Case studies and how to go about building intelligent teams Who This Book Is For This book targets incident managers, malware analysts, reverse engineers, digital forensics specialists, and intelligence analysts; experience in, or knowledge of, security operations, incident responses or investigations is desirable so you can make the most of the subjects presented. What You Will Learn ? Learn about the Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) loop and it's applicability to security ? Understand tactical view of Active defense concepts and their application in today's threat landscape ? Get acquainted with an operational view of the F3EAD process to drive decision making within an organization ? Create a Framework and Capability Maturity Model that integrates inputs and outputs from key functions in an information security organization ? Understand the idea of communicating with the Potential for Exploitability based on cyber intelligence In Detail Cyber intelligence is the missing link between your cyber defense operation teams, threat intelligence, and IT operations to provide your organization with a full spectrum of defensive capabilities. This book kicks off with the need for cyber intelligence and why it is required in terms of a defensive framework. Moving forward, the book provides a practical explanation of the F3EAD protocol with the help of examples. Furthermore, we learn how to go about threat models and intelligence products/frameworks and apply them to real-life scenarios. Based on the discussion with the prospective author I would also love to explore the induction of a tool to enhance the marketing feature and functionality of the book. By the end of this book, you will be able to boot up an intelligence program in your organization based on the operation and tactical/strategic spheres of Cyber defense intelligence. Style and approach A step-by-step practical guide that will help you master defensive frameworks to secure your system, and the F3EAD protocol to help you boot up an intelligence program in your organization.

This step-by-step guide will teach you to continuously improve your mobile application development process About This Book ? Efficiently deliver continuous integration and deployment within all the stages of your application's lifecycle ? Learn to implement mobile DevOps with Xamarin and Visual Studio ? Deliver high quality and performing mobile applications Who This Book Is For If you are a programmer and developer who wants to increase the efficiency and scalability of your mobile application with the implementation of DevOps, then this book is for you. You need basic experience of the application process development. What You Will Learn ? Become fluent with the basic components of Mobile Devops ? Find out how to use code repositories and install Git on an EC2 server and manage users and groups ? Set up an Android device for development and install Visual Studio and Xamarin on Windows ? Create an Android project and UI for applications ? Add permissions to Android Manifest ? Write tests with Xamarin. UI and test using test cloud to check it on multiple devices ? Monitor and optimize the application using the Android monitoring tool ? Debug the mobile application and improve its efficiency In Detail Today's world is all about perfection, and there are hundreds of applications that are released each day out of which only a few succeed. Making sure that the app looks, performs, and behaves as expected is one of the biggest challenge developers face today. The main goal of this book is to teach developers to implement DevOps to build, test, and deliver. This book will teach you to implement Mobile DevOps at every stage of your application's lifecycle with Visual Studio and Xamarin Mobile Lifecycle solutions. Later, it will also show you how to leverage Mobile Center's continuous integration and automated testing to develop a high-quality applications. Next, you’ll see how to mobilize your on-premises data to the cloud and increase your productivity with code reuse. Finally, you’ll discover how to find and fix bugs beforehand, improving the efficiency of your application while it is being developed. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with Mobile DevOps techniques, delivering high quality and high performance mobile apps. Style and approach This clear, concise, and straightforward book will make you aware of mobile applications by showing you Devops fundamentals such as building, testing, and delivery. This book has been created to help you put new ideas into practice, and demonstrate precisely what's possible with mobile Devops.

Create next-generation Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality apps with the latest version of Google ARCore About This Book ? Harness the power of the Google’s new augmented reality (AR) platform ARCore to build cutting-edge Augmented reality apps ? Learn core concepts of Environmental Understanding, Immersive Computing, and Motion Tracking with ARCore ? Extend your application by combining ARCore with OpenGL, Machine Learning and more. Who This Book Is For This book is for web and mobile developers who have broad programming knowledge on Java or JavaScript or C# and want to develop Augmented Reality applications with Google ArCore. To follow this book no prior experience with AR development, 3D, or 3D math experience is needed. What You Will Learn ? Build and deploy your Augmented Reality app to the Android, Web, and Unity platforms ? Implement ARCore to identify and visualize objects as point clouds, planes, surfaces, and/or meshes ? Explore advanced concepts of environmental understanding using Google ARCore and OpenGL ES with Java ? Create light levels from ARCore and create a C# script to watch and propagate lighting changes in a scene ? Develop graphics shaders that react to changes in lighting and map the environment to place objects in Unity/C# ? Integrate motion tracking with the Web ARCore API and Google Street View to create a combined AR/VR experience In Detail Are you a mobile developer or web developer who wants to create immersive and cool Augmented Reality apps with the latest Google ARCore platform? If so, this book will help you jump right into developing with ARCore and will help you create a step by step AR app easily. This book will teach you how to implement the core features of ARCore starting from the fundamentals of 3D rendering to more advanced concepts such as lighting, shaders, Machine Learning, and others. We’ll begin with the basics of building a project on three platforms: web, Android, and Unity. Next, we’ll go through the ARCore concepts of motion tracking, environmental understanding, and light estimation. For each core concept, you’ll work on a practical project to use and extend the ARCore feature, from learning the basics of 3D rendering and lighting to exploring more advanced concepts. You’ll write custom shaders to light virtual objects in AR, then build a neural network to recognize the environment and explore even grander applications by using ARCore in mixed reality. At the end of the book, you’ll see how to implement motion tracking and environment learning, create animations and sounds, generate virtual characters, and simulate them on your screen. Style and approach Practical examples that will take you through the basics of ARcore and teach you how to build an app using it.

Your quick, no-nonsense guide to building real-world apps with Angular 2About This Book·The first and best overview of Angular 2 on the market—this guide gathers together everything there is to know about Angular 2 and groups it into intuitive sections.·This book is your detailed map of every feature and its use cases.·The author has done all the hard work of fitting everything Angular 2 means for developers together for you, making this book the quickest way to learn Angular 2 from scratch.Who This Book Is ForThis book is targeted at web developers who want to build the next generation of state-of-the-art mobile and desktop web applications with Angular 2. This book does not require you to have prior exposure to either Angular 1.x or 2, although comprehensive knowledge of JavaScript is assumed. It's great for newcomers to Angular who learn best through clear explanations and definitions of concepts.What You Will Learn·Set up your working environment in order to have all the tools you need to start building Angular 2 components with minimum effort·Get up to speed with TypeScript, a powerful typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript·Take full control of how your data is rendered and updated upon data changes·Build powerful web applications based on structured component hierarchies that emit and listen to events and data changes throughout the elements tree·Explore how to consume external APIs and data services and allow data editing by harnessing the power of web forms made with Angular 2·Deliver seamless web navigation experiences with application routing and state handling common features with ease·Discover how to bulletproof your applications by introducing smart unit testing techniques and debugging toolsIn DetailAngular 2 was conceived as a complete rewrite in order to fulfill the expectations of modern developers who demand blazing fast performance and responsiveness from their web applications.This book will help you learn the basics of how to design and build Angular 2 components right from the beginning, providing full coverage of the TypeScript syntax required to follow the examples included. From that point on, we will build upon our first components, interconnect them, and give shape to larger web applications. We will then move to implementing routing in Angular 2, analyzing how to handle application states, and navigating from one component to another in depth. After this, the book features full coverage of web forms and user input validation, later leveraging all of this information to go through the basics of implementing user authentication in Angular 2 and providing a bird's eye view of the different strategies at hand to secure pages and areas of your website. Animating components and DOM elements with Angular 2 is also covered in this book. The final part of this book provides broad insights into how to unit test components and other modules such as services, directives, routes or pipes.Style and approachThis book covers everything there is to know about getting well-acquainted with Angular without bogging you down. Everything is neatly laid out under clear headings for quick consultation, offering you the information required to understand a concept immediately, with short relevant examples of each feature.

An expert's guide to build fault tolerant MongoDB applicationAbout This Book·Master the advanced modeling, querying, and administration techniques in MongoDB and become a MongoDB expert·Covers the latest updates and Big Data features frequently used by professional MongoDB developers and administrators·If your goal is to become a certified MongoDB professional, this book is your perfect companionWho This Book Is ForMastering MongoDB is a book for database developers, architects, and administrators who want to learn how to use MongoDB more effectively and productively.If you have experience in, and are interested in working with, NoSQL databases to build apps and websites, then this book is for you.What You Will Learn·Get hands-on with advanced querying techniques such as indexing, expressions, arrays, and more.·Configure, monitor, and maintain highly scalable MongoDB environment like an expert.·Master replication and data sharding to optimize read/write performance.·Design secure and robust applications based on MongoDB.·Administer MongoDB-based applications on-premise or in the cloud·Scale MongoDB to achieve your design goals·Integrate MongoDB with big data sources to process huge amounts of dataIn DetailMongoDB has grown to become the de facto NoSQL database with millions of users—from small startups to Fortune 500 companies. Addressing the limitations of SQL schema-based databases, MongoDB pioneered a shift of focus for DevOps and offered sharding and replication maintainable by DevOps teams. The book is based on MongoDB 3.x and covers topics ranging from database querying using the shell, built in drivers, and popular ODM mappers to more advanced topics such as sharding, high availability, and integration with big data sources.You will get an overview of MongoDB and how to play to its strengths, with relevant use cases. After that, you will learn how to query MongoDB effectively and make use of indexes as much as possible. The next part deals with the administration of MongoDB installations on-premise or in the cloud. We deal with database internals in the next section, explaining storage systems and how they can affect performance. The last section of this book deals with replication and MongoDB scaling, along with integration with heterogeneous data sources. By the end this book, you will be equipped with all the required industry skills and knowledge to become a certified MongoDB developer and administrator.Style and approachThis book takes a practical, step-by-step approach to explain the concepts of MongoDB. Practical use-cases involving real-world examples are used throughout the book to clearly explain theoretical concepts.

You're already a smart person, you don't need a 1000+ page book to get you started on the web's fastest growing programming platform. Instead, Learn Python in One Hour delivers on the promise of code literacy while saving your most precious commodity - time itself. Volkman's innovative programming-by-example approach means you focus on usage, not mindless detail. Based on the author's sold-out live seminars, you'll see Python's flexible coding technique in action as we refactor from script to procedural to object-oriented during actual problem solving. In a seven-lesson progression, you'll be exposed to this and more: Basic file input and output operations Exception handling with try/except Using functions to compute and return multiple values Basic elements of a class definition and how to call methods Lists, dictionaries, sets, and other collections Iteration through collections, files, sorted sets Converting lists to strings and vice-versa Six most common Python pitfalls Take the One Hour challenge and see if you too can pick up 90% of syntax and semantics in less time than you probably spend commuting each day.About the Author Victor R. Volkman graduated cum laude from Michigan Technological University with a BS in Computer Science in 1986. Since then, he has written for numerous publications, including The C Gazette, C++ Users Journal, Windows Developers Journal, and many others. He has taught college-level programming courses at Washtenaw Community College and has served on its Computer Information Science (CIS) Faculty Advisory Board for more than a decade. Volkman says Python helped him "rediscover the joy of programming again." www.volkman.org From Modern Software Press

An in-depth guide to exploring the design, architecture, and techniques behind building sophisticated, scalable, and maintainable single-page applications in JavaScriptAbout This Book·Build large-scale, feature-complete SPAs by leveraging widely used tools and techniques.·Gain a solid understanding of architecture and SPA design to build applications using the library or framework of your choice.·Explore the various facets of SPA development to build web apps that are fast, scalable, and easy to test.Who This Book Is ForThis book is ideal for JavaScript developers who want to build complex single-page applications in JavaScript. Some basic understanding of SPA concepts will be helpful but not essential.What You Will Learn·Organize your development environment using the command line with NPM, Bower, and Grunt.·Choose an accurate design pattern for your app·Understand modular JavaScript programming and Node.js·Interact with a REST API using JavaScript and AJAX with practical examples·Build a single page application using the MEAN stack·Connect your app across popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn·Test your app, both on the server side and in views·Prepare your app for the real world and deploy it to HerokuIn DetailSingle-page web applications—or SPAs, as they are commonly referred to—are quickly becoming the de facto standard for web app development. The fact that a major part of the app runs inside a single web page makes it very interesting and appealing. Also, the accelerated growth of browser capabilities is pushing us closer to the day when all apps will run entirely in the browser.This book will take your JavaScript development skills to the next level by teaching you to create a single-page application within a full-stack JavaScript environment. Using only JavaScript, you can go from being a front-end developer to a full-stack application developer with relative ease.You will learn to cross the boundary from front-end development to server-side development through the use of JavaScript on both ends. Use your existing knowledge of JavaScript by learning to manage a JSON document data store with MongoDB, writing a JavaScript powered REST API with Node.js and Express, and designing a front-end powered by AngularJS.This book will teach you to leverage the MEAN stack to do everything from document database design, routing REST web API requests, data-binding within views, and adding authentication and security to building a full-fledged, complex, single-page web application.In addition to building a full-stack JavaScript app, you will learn to test it with JavaScript-powered testing tools such as Mocha, Karma, and Jasmine. Finally, you will learn about deployment and scaling so that you can launch your own apps into the real world.Style and approachFollowing a structured approach, this book helps readers gain expertise in SPA development. Its thorough coverage of SPA architecture and design, along with practical use cases, provides readers with a clear path to building applications with the library of their choice. For readers who are afraid to take the plunge straightaway, the book also offers step-by-step guidance on developing a complex web app.

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