Web development | Packt (2024)

This reading list will help you understand how to develop impressive apps quickly using the latest version of Vue.js 3.0. The books covered in the list teaches how to migrate your existing Vue.js apps to the latest version, offers succinct solutions to common challenges and pitfalls faced in implementing components, derivatives, and animation, through to building plugins, adding state management, routing, and developing complete single-page applications (SPAs). The reading list also covers Vue.js full-stack development.

This collection helps you deeply grasp Angular concepts step by step. Explore various recipes and projects covering key topics, guiding you to build high-performance apps. Plus, learn to connect frontend with ASP.NET Core 5 for secure, resilient web app deployment.

This thoughtfully curated reading list is designed to elevate your web development career. It guides you in crafting contemporary web applications with React and its comprehensive toolkit. Through hands-on learning, you'll unlock React's potential, paving your path toward becoming a proficient React developer. Beyond fundamental concepts, you'll also acquire mastery in React through the exploration of diverse design patterns and industry best practices.

This list teaches practical use of modern web tech and methods for full-stack MERN apps. Learn MERN stack, enhance it for complex features, and master React apps. Explore best practices for real-world demands.

This list provides a hands-on way to learn ASP.NET Core for modern web apps. It covers full-stack development and integrating ASP.NET Core with top frameworks like Blazor, React, and Angular.

Designed for beginners in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (JS), as well as those seeking skill enhancement in web development. Ranging from HTML5 to React, these resources will empower you to develop a strong foundation in writing fundamental JavaScript code. With this knowledge, you'll be prepared to progress to more advanced frameworks and embark on a journey towards becoming a professional web developer.

This reading list is tailored is for you want to learn the entire process of developing professional web applications with Python and Django. The featured books teach you how to build web apps with Django 3, solve common web development problems, implement best practices, and how to successfully deploy your applications.

This reading list helps you get to grips with the concepts of building server-side web apps with Node.js. You'll understand how Node.js works and learn how to take full advantage of its core components. as well as the solutions offered by its ecosystem.

This reading list will give you a hands-on and practical introduction to Blazor helping you get you up and running in no time. The books shortlisted in this reading list will help you create and deploy production-ready applications with .NET, Blazor WebAssembly, and C#

Greg Deckler

Greg Deckler is Vice President of the Microsoft Practice at Fusion Alliance and has been a professional technology systems consultant for over 25 years. Internationally recognized as an expert in Power BI, Greg Deckler is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and a superuser within the Power BI community with over 100,000 messages read, more than 11,000 replies, over 2,300 answers, and more than 75 entries in the Quick Measures Gallery. Greg founded the Columbus Azure ML and Power BI User Group (CAMLPUG) and presents at numerous conferences and events, including SQL Saturday, DogFood, and the Dynamic Communities User Group/Power Platform Summit.

Mr. Mark Price

Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.

Dr. Sebastian Raschka

Sebastian Raschka is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focusing on machine learning and deep learning research. As Lead AI Educator at Grid AI, Sebastian plans to continue following his passion for helping people get into machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Duilio Tacconi

Duilio Tacconi is a Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Escalation Engineer at Microsoft EMEA Customer Support & Services (CSS). He joined Microsoft in 2008 after working in a customer IT department with a focus on system administration and development.Despite graduating with the highest score in Agricultural Science in 1996, he is in the ERP circuit since 1998 as developer and system implementer for several companies with Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies.Currently, he is a subject matter expert in EMEA for RDLC Report development and one of Microsoft EMEA CSS reference for Managed Service for Partners (MSfP).Three times IronMan finisher, Duilio lives in Cernusco Sul Naviglio (Italy) with his beloved wife Laura and his 2 years old son Leonardo.

Gabriel Baptista

Gabriel Baptista is a software architect who leads technical teams for Microsoft products across numerous projects for retail and industry. He is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions specialist, a computing professor, a co-founder of a start-up for developing mobile applications, and also a speaker on the Channel 9 community.

Per Larsen

Per Larsen works as a Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Endpoint Manager - Customer Acceleration Team - Commercial Management Experiences (CMX) Engineering, where he takes learnings from Microsoft’s largest and most strategic customers back into the rest of engineering to drive improvements for the service so that customers have a continuously improving product experience. He also helps deploy and adopt Microsoft Endpoint Manager - Microsoft Intune. Per mainly focuses on the management of Windows and special devices such as HoloLens 2, Surface Hub, and Microsoft Teams Room System.Per was also an MVP in Enterprise Mobility, from 1st July 2016 to when he joined Microsoft on 1st April 2018.

Carl-Hugo Marcotte

Carl-Hugo Marcotte has been developing, designing, and architecting web applications professionally since 2005, wrote his first line of code at about eight years old, and holds a bachelor's degree in computer science.After working at a firm for a few years, he became an independent consultant, where he developed projects of different sizes for SMEs and educational institutions. He is now a Senior Solutions Architect at Export Development Canada and is passionate about software architecture, C#, ASP.NET Core, and the Cloud.He loves to share his knowledge, which led him to teaching programming, blogging, and creating, maintaining and contributing to multiple open-source projects.

Ben Auffarth

Ben Auffarth is a full-stack data scientist who has >15 years of work experience. With a background and Ph.D. in computational and cognitive neuroscience from one of Europe's top engineering universities, he has designed and conducted wet lab experiments on cell cultures, analyzed experiments with terabytes of data, run brain models on IBM supercomputers with up to 64k cores, built production systems processing hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, and trained neural networks on millions of text documents. In his work, he often notices a lack of appreciation for the importance of time-related factors, a deficit he wanted to address in this book. He co-founded and is the former president of Data Science Speakers, London.

Maaike van Putten

Maaike van Putten is an experienced software developer and Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning, Udemy, and Bright Boost instructor. She has a passion for software development and helping others get to the next level in their career.

Stefan Jansen

Stefan is the founder and CEO of Applied AI. He advises Fortune 500 companies, investment firms, and startups across industries on data & AI strategy, building data science teams, and developing end-to-end machine learning solutions for a broad range of business problems.Before his current venture, he was a partner and managing director at an international investment firm, where he built the predictive analytics and investment research practice. He was also a senior executive at a global fintech company with operations in 15 markets, advised Central Banks in emerging markets, and consulted for the World Bank.He holds Master's degrees in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and in Economics from Harvard and Free University Berlin, and a CFA Charter. He has worked in six languages across Europe, Asia, and the Americas and taught data science at Datacamp and General Assembly.