Client-side versus Server-side Application Development

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來自 University of California, Davis 的課程

Introduction to Web Development

276 個評分

University of California, Davis

Introduction to Web Development

276 個評分

This course is designed to start you on a path toward future studies in web development and design, no matter how little experience or technical knowledge you currently have. The web is a very big place, and if you are the typical internet user, you probably visit several websites every day, whether for business, entertainment or education. But have you ever wondered how these websites actually work? How are they built? How do browsers, computers, and mobile devices interact with the web? What skills are necessary to build a website? With almost 1 billion websites now on the internet, the answers to these questions could be your first step toward a better understanding of the internet and developing a new set of internet skills. By the end of this course you’ll be able to describe the structure and functionality of the world wide web, create dynamic web pages using a combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, apply essential programming language concepts when creating HTML forms, select an appropriate web hosting service, and publish your webpages for the world to see. Finally, you’ll be able to develop a working model for creating your own personal or business websites in the future and be fully prepared to take the next step in a more advanced web development or design course or specialization.

從本節課中

Creating Web Applications

In our final module, we're going to explore the basics of designing web applications - programming useful and dynamic webpages that allow our users to interact with them. By the end of this lesson you'll be able to: distinguish between client and server-side development; apply advanced JavaScript programming skills to create logic with selection and iteration; create new features for applications; create more advanced HTML forms; and practice and learn additional troubleshooting and problem-solving techniques. The module wraps with a final peer review activity that will draw upon all of the skills you've learned in this course.

Module 6 Introduction1:42

Client-side versus Server-side Application Development4:28

Features in Web Applications: The While Loop5:16

Features in Web Applications: The For Loop5:02

Creating New Features in Web Applications3:37

Guided Practice with HTML Form Validation, Part 15:42

Guided Practice with HTML Form Validation, Part 27:44

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Daniel Randall
Senior Architect at Composer Solutions and Instructor
UC Davis Division of Continuing and Professional Education

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Hi, and welcome back.

In our last lesson, we talked about some of the details of a form submit button and

why when we're doing client side only development, we can't really submit,

a form just as we would when we have both a client side and server side.

In this lesson, we're going to talk a little bit about the comparison of client

and server side web development.

So in this diagram, we have two computers on the left.

One's a laptop,

one is probably a representation of a desktop with a flat screen.

When we're doing client side development,

everything we do is actually staying on our computer.

Let's say it's a laptop.

When we do server side development, our code on the client side makes

a request across the Internet to a server and that's the big box on the right.

Now, we looked at GoDaddy a number of times when we were

developing our site throughout this course.

And GoDaddy is a server.

They provide many servers to all of their many customers.

So when a server receives a request, it returns usually a webpage to the client.

Our work with HTML and

JavaScript is staying completely on the client side in this course.

So our pages aren't actually being submitted to the server.

Now if you develop an attractive page and

you deploy it to a host, for instance, GoDaddy, and make a request for

that page using the URL, then you are requesting a page across the Internet.

But our JavaScript examples in this course for

validating forms are all happening on the client side.

So another thing that happens on the server side,

that part of the diagram on the right, is database access.

Later, if you continue your career with web development, you'll probably be

working with servers and with databases, as well as with clients.

But in a course like this, it helps to do just one thing at a time and

gain familiarity with things like HTML and

JavaScript, before diving into what we call the full stack of development.

And when we say stack, we're referring to client and server and database and

also more detailed elements, arranged sort of conceptually as a stack of things.

When we're working with a client side,

we're working with a particular set of technologies and languages.

So a client side element is the browser itself.

And these are things, of course, like Chrome and Safari and Firefox and

any other browser you might use.

We work with HTML which we have done extensively in this course, CSS for

styling our HTML, and JavaScript.

All of these are elements of the client's side.

On the server side, we have things like a web server,

such as the one that GoDaddy provides for us, or any other hosting service.

There are databases, which we haven't studied in this class, but

most large web applications do have databases.

For instance, consider where Amazon is keeping all the information

about their books.

PHP, which is a server side language.

So for our course, our programming language is JavaScript.

If you were doing a server side course, you might use PHP or

you could also use Java or C#.

And note here that while Java sounds like JavaScript, Java and

JavaScript are completely different languages.

Java is a server side language, and JavaScript, like in our course,

is a client side language.

C# is another language similar to Java and provided by Microsoft.

So that's all for this lesson.

Next time we'll be looking at some other elements of the JavaScript language,

including loops.

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