Networked Applications
Summary
This course will cover server side development from first principles. We'll build on your knowledge of HTTP and the request/response cycle to create a dynamic web application from scratch, before moving on to build some more complex applications using a lightweight development framework. We'll also talk about other development considerations such as deployment and security, and deploy an application to Heroku.
Phase
Programming and Back-end Development
Prerequisites
| Course No. | Name |
|---|---|
| LS171d |
Assessment: Networking Foundations
|
| OR | |
| LS171 |
Assessment: Networking Foundations
|
Detailed Syllabus
Handling HTTP Requests
- A simple echo server
- Parsing paths and parameters
- Sending a complete HTTP response
- Dealing with empty HTTP requests
- Persisting states in the URL
Project: Build a Book Reading App
- How routes work
- Rendering templates
- Project: build a book reading app
- Showing table of contents
- Adding a chapter page
- Using layouts to remove duplication between templates
- Working with route parameters
- Working with filters
- View helpers
- Redirecting
- Adding a search form
Project: Build a Todo List
- What is state?
- Viewing all todo list
- Creating a new todo list
- Designing URLs
- Clearing cookies
- Flash messages
- Validations
- Capturing template content for display elsewhere
- Editing todo lists
- Deleting todo list
- Adding todos to a list
- Marking todos as completed
- Completing all todos in a list
- Using view helpers to apply styles
- Sorting and filtering with helpers
Securing Applications
- Sanitizing HTML
- Handling bad input
Adding JavaScript
- Including JavaScript files
- Confirming destructive actions
- Making HTTP requests from JavaScript