RICH HTML/JS APPS with

STEVEN SANDERSON, MICROSOFT @STEVENSANDERSON

KNOCKOUT.JS, MOBILE SERVICES

and no web server

WHAT’S IN THIS TALK?

2. CLOUD BACKENDS

1. KNOCKOUT.JS

3. MOBILE APPS

FUN NO WEB SERVER

BUZZWORDS MAGIC

AZURE

SPA MODELS

VIEWS VIEWMODELS

PHONEGAP APP STORES iOS

ANDROID WINDOWS PHONE

RICH WEB APPS: WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?

KNOCKOUT.JS & MVVM

MODEL Server / DB JavaScript + observables HTML + bindings

MIT LICENSE ON GITHUB

~ 3 YEARS OLD

MODEL VIEW VIEWMODEL

VIEW MODEL VIEW AUTO!

Let’s DO AN APP!

wwwsrv01 wwwsrv02

sqldb-master prod-san-backup

nginx-proxy

BACKEND SERVICE as a

TODAY: SO SOON:

STEVE’S MISCELLANY OF PERSONAL OPINIONS

DEVELOP IN A BROWSER

STYLE FOR RETINA USE WEBKIT REMOTE DEBUGGER

CSS TRANSITIONS COMMERCIAL ARTWORK PLUGINS ARE EASY

One Multiple

Web dev Depends Use HTML+JS

Native mobile dev Go Native Depends SKILL SET

TARGET PLATFORM

PHONEGAP TIPS

iOS-SPECIFIC TIPS

SUMMARY

2. CLOUD BACKENDS

1. SINGLE-PAGE WEB APPS

3. MOBILE APPS

FUN NO WEB SERVER

BUZZWORDS MAGIC

AZURE

KNOCKOUT.JS MODELS

VIEWS VIEWMODELS

PHONEGAP APP STORES iOS

ANDROID WINDOWS PHONE

PhoneGap

Knockout.js

MobileServices.js

Native filesystem

Browser (public access)

Windows Azure Mobile Service ASP.NET MVC site

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