Building the Realtime User Experience: Creating Immersive and Interactive Websites

by Ted Roden

The Web is increasingly happening in realtime. With websites such as Facebook and Twitter leading the way, users are coming to expect that all sites should serve content as it occurs―on smartphones as well as computers. This book shows you how to build realtime user experiences by adding chat, streaming content, and including more features on your site one piece at a time, without making big changes to the existing infrastructure. You'll also learn how to serve realtime content beyond the browser. Throughout the book are many practical JavaScript and Python examples for advanced web developers that you can use on your site now. And in the final chapter, you'll build a location-aware game that combines all of the technologies discussed.

Genres: Design, Web, Nonfiction

319 pages, Paperback

First published June 23, 2010

Reviews

[Brandon Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book provides a good introduction to some of the tools and technologies that drive social websites. It could be outdated (the industry changes weekly), but it's one of the more concise and readable synopses of the subject matter.

[Burak Dede · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book gathers all the flavor of tools and terminology to build realtime web app not just giving thoeritical stuff also plenty of code examples.