Who’s This Book For?

If you make things on the web, this book is for you. If you’re a web designer or front-end developer who’s looking to expand into other areas of web development, you’ll get a chance to play with some new libraries and workflows that will help you be more productive, and you’ll get exposed to a little bit of that server-side stuff along the way.

If you’ve been spending a lot of time on the back end and you need to get up to speed on some front-end techniques, you’ll find some good recipes here as well, especially in the chapters on workflow and testing.

One last thing—a lot of these recipes assume you’ve had a little experience writing client-side code with JavaScript and jQuery. If you don’t think you have that experience, read through the recipes anyway and pick apart the provided source code. Consider the more advanced recipes as a challenge.