Real-Time Web Application Development Using Vert.X 2.0

by Tero Parviainen

A quick, clear, and concise tutorial-guide-based approach that helps you to develop a web application based on Vert.x.Real-time Web Application Development with Vert.x is written for web developers who want to take the next step and dive into real-time web application development.This book uses JavaScript (and some Java) to introduce the Vert.x platform, so basic JavaScript knowledge is expected. If you're planning to write your applications using some of the other Vert.x languages, all the techniques and concepts will translate to them directly. All you need to do is refer to the Vert.x API reference documentation to see the particular APIs for your language.

Genres: Technology

122 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Tero Parviainen is a software developer and one half of Counterpoint.

Reviews

[Alexis Willemyns · Rating 3 out of 5]

A colleague talked me about this technology Eclipse Vert.x and I was curious about the performances of this toolkit. There is only a few books about Vert.x so I decided to choose this one for the real-time aspect. I am not pure front-end developer, I am in fact mainly on backend stuff. But... I appreciated to read it despite that there are pages too oriented on web development and particularly Javascript. I think that even if you are not a Javascript specialist you can understand the principles of Vert.x; event loop model, asynchronous, threads, ... I recommend this book if you want a quick understanding of Vert.x but not in details. Sadly the price is too high compared to the number of pages.

[Tumas · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this book after a co-worker had shown me some performance benchmarks comparing vert.x with other frameworks/platforms in which it performed really well. Instantly I was curious and eager to learn more. Besides the official manual at the time the book seemed to be the only other resource that existed on the web. This like many other books from Packt is short and quick to read which serves as a nice introduction to the platform.
Throughout the book the author guides the reader through the creation of a simple mind-mapping application, during which he explains main concepts of vert.x platform as he builds new features. Most of the examples are given in JavaScript which is OK if you want to reach the masses but personally I would have liked it more if the examples were written in more concise language like Ruby (yes, Vert.x is a multi-language platform! and bonus points for not using Java).
Keep in mind that this is an introductory book and there are no in-depth explanations of the features presented. This makes the book a natural first step in the path of learning more about this promising and relatively unknown platform.

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[Harleen Bagga · Rating 5 out of 5]

Real-time Web Application Development using Vert.x 2.0 is written for web developers who want to take the next step and dive into real-time web application development.This book uses JavaScript (and some Java) to introduce the Vert.x platform, so basic JavaScript knowledge is expected. If you’re planning to write your applications using some of the other Vert.x languages, all the techniques and concepts will translate to them directly. All you need to do is refer to the Vert.x API reference documentation to see the particular APIs for your language.

You can read more about the book here : http://www.packtpub.com/real-time-web...