How This Book Is Organized

This book walks you through writing four different web applications. Each application has its own section of the book. Each chapter in a section adds new features to the application you are building.

Doing the work of building these four applications takes you from one extreme of the front-end spectrum to the other.

Ottergram

In your first project, you will create a web-based photo gallery. Building Ottergram will teach you the fundamentals of programming for the browser using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You will build the user interface manually, learning how the browser loads and renders content.

CoffeeRun

Part coffee order form, part checklist, CoffeeRun takes you through a number ...

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