02: Component Is Just A Fancy Word For Class

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Things Mentioned and/or Useful Items

• Rails image management gems: Paperclip, Carrierwave, Refile
• Imgix - Image management
• Pkgr - Deploy rails apps via Debian packages
• Capistrano - A remote server automation and deployment tool
• Slashrocket - Community focused on learning web development
• Smoothstate - Make any site one-page like after initial load (aka Pjax or Turbolinks)
• Animate CSS - A badass collection of CSS transitions and animations that make it easy to spice up your project (responsibly of course)
• Angular - HTML enhanced for web apps! (really?)
• React - A Javascript library for building User Interfaces
• What Backbone developers can learn from React.js
• Don't repeat yourself

Explanations

What in the world is a Single Page App?

Single-Page Applications (SPAs) are Web apps that load a single HTML page and dynamically update that page as the user interacts with the app. SPAs use AJAX and HTML5 to create fluid and responsive Web apps, without constant page reloads. However, this means much of the work happens on the client side, in JavaScript.

– MSDN

What are Web Components

Web Components are a set of standards currently being produced by Google engineers as a W3C specification that allow for the creation of reusable widgets or components in web documents and web applications. The intention behind them is to bring component-based software engineering to the World Wide Web.

– Wikipedia

(Dom Spaghetti)