Sandeep Kumar Patel - Learning Web Component Development

Sandeep Kumar Patel is a senior web developer and the founder of www.tutorialsavvy.com, a programming blog that has been widely read since its inception in 2012. He has over 5 years of experience in object-oriented JavaScript and JSON-based web applications development. He is GATE-2005 Information Technology (IT) qualified and has a master's degree from VIT University, Vellore. You can get to know more about him by looking at his LinkedIn profile (http://www.linkedin.com/in/techblogger). He has received the DZone Most Valuable Blogger (MVB) award for technical publications related to web technologies. His article can be viewed at http://www.dzone.com/users/sandeepgiet. He has also received the Java Code Geeks (JCG) badge for a technical article published on the JGC website. His article can be viewed at http://www.javacodegeeks.com/author/sandeep-kumar-patel/.

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I would like to thank the three most important people in my lifemy parents, Dilip Kumar Patel and Sanjukta Patel, for their love and my little sister, Sangeeta Patel, for her support and motivation.

A special thanks to the team at Packt Publishing, without whom this book wouldn't have been possible.

Zhelan Chen graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas with a major in computer science. She has worked as an IT staff member for several companies while developing Java EE, .NET applications, websites, and web services. She has been teaching computer courses part time at Dallas Community College for several years. She holds several Oracle Java EE certificates.

Krzysztof Cislo is a software developer and architect with 10 years of professional experience focused on web applications.

He started his programming journey by working with websites created in the PHP language, during which time he also tried to stay up to date with frontend languages, such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. After a while, he completely turned his focus to server-side technologies, such as the Java language, which became his main area of interest for a long time.

However, these days he focuses more on frontend-side technologies and is considering going back to the JavaScript world.

Lars Kappert (http://webpro.nl) is a Dutch frontend solution architect and lead developer. He specializes in architecture, solutions, performance, tooling, and the development of websites and applications. He works closely with a number of core web technologies, including HTML5, JavaScript, NodeJS, and CSS. He is an active open source developer on GitHub (https://github.com/webpro), and publishes articles for Medium (https://medium.com/@webprolific), Smashing Mag (https://www.smashingmagazine.com/author/lars-kappert/), and more. You can follow him on Twitter at @webprolific (https://twitter.com/webprolific).

Sebastian Metzger graduated from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany with a diploma in information systems. He then worked for both big banking corporations and small start-ups, after which he founded his own software development and technology consulting company in 2014.

He started creating single-page web applications in 2011 using Java with the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Now he has moved on to full stack native JavaScript development that facilitates NodeJS and AngularJS. Always looking into recent developments, he created his first web components app using Google Polymer in the summer of 2014, which can be found at http://foodtrack.de.

Be sure to check out his company web page at http://sebastianmetzger.com, where he regularly blogs about the latest technologies and trends.

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Preface

Welcome to Learning Web Component Development . If you want to learn and understand the W3C web component specification and develop a custom web component using Polymer, Bosonic, Mozilla Brick, and ReactJS, then this is the book for you. It offers a systematic approach to build a responsive web application. All the key features of web component specification that can help in building a web component are explained in this book, and are accompanied by the detailed code you will need.