COM518 - Web Application Development

These are the full notes for the Web Application Development module.Note that some topics are being updated, and therefore are not available yet.

Contents

Provisional; exact timing subject to change depending on how you are all progressing..

• 1.Introduction to JSON Web APIs
• 2. More on REST Web APIs: POST and PUT requests, sending data through the request body
• 3. Promises and AJAX
• 4. Using the Document Object Model
• 5. Modules and Bundlers; Web Mapping with Leaflet and OpenStreetMap
• Feb 26th: Catch-up session
• 6. Introduction to React
• 7. Further React
• 8. Middleware; Session Variables and Login Systems
• 9. Further Node and Express: Routing. Improving Reusability with Modules
• 10. DAOs and Controllers
• 11. Security issues (lecture only)
• 12. Deploying Node applications (lecture only)

Additional reading

These topics will not be assessed, but you might find them interesting additional reading.

• File handling in Node.js
• Cross-provider authentication with Passport

Exercise solutions

Exercise solutions will be provided for selected exercises from selected weeks early in the module. To allow you chance to catch up with unfinished work, these will be added three weeks after the relevant lab. However please attempt the exercises yourself, and ask me for help if you get stuck, before looking at these! - you will learn more that way.