Full-Stack Web Development from the Ground Up,

Edition 1 Principles, Practices, and Technologies

Editors: By Christopher D Hundhausen, Ph.D.

Publication Date: 17 Jul 2026

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Full-Stack Development from the Ground Up: Principles, Practices, and Technologies addresses the growing need for a comprehensive upper-division computer science textbook that provides in-depth treatment of full-stack web development using the modern web development technologies that students are likely to encounter in industry. Professional full-stack web developers who are capable of developing both the front-end user interfaces and back-end databases and services for dynamic websites are in high demand. The book begins by laying a foundation in HTML, CSS and JavaScript—the building blocks of client-side web development.

It then explores one particular web development stack in detail: MERN, which stands for MongoDB, Express.js, React.js and Node.js. Together, these four technologies provide powerful support for full-stack web development in a single programming language—JavaScript. The crucial final step in the web development process is deploying apps to a server, so users can interact with them. This book simplifies deployment by focusing on just one web deployment environment: Amazon Web Services (AWS), and only those AWS tools that are absolutely necessary to deploy MERN applications.

Key Features

Takes a hands-on approach to web development, incrementally developing a realistic web application example to motivate and illustrate the concepts and techniques
Augments coding examples and discussions with links to external web resources that provide additional discussions and perspectives
Supplies solutions to end-of-chapter exercises and programming tasks.
Adopters of the book will get access to a GitHub repository containing all of the book's source code. Tagged code snapshots within that repository take the project from its initial state through its final state, following the development progression in the chapter's featured code blocks

About the author

By Christopher D Hundhausen, Ph.D., Professor, Computer science, Associate Head for Online Programs, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University.

Preface

Welcome to Full Stack Web Development
The Front-End Code Behind a Single Page Web App
Creating a Single-Page Web App Framework in HTML and CSS: Semantic HTML and ARIA Roles
Creating a Single-Page Web App Framework in HTML and CSS: Part II
Bringing a Single-Page Web App to Life with JavaScript: Event Handling and Menus
Bringing a Single-Page Web App to Life with JavaScript: Tabs and Modal Dialogs
Automated Testing of Client-Side Web Apps
Obtaining and Validating User Data with HTML Forms
Using HTML Forms: An Advanced Example
Saving User Data in Local Storage
Working with Data in Tables
Welcome to React
Transitioning to the Create React App Framework
Using Web APIs to Obtain App Data and Enhance Functionality
Architecting React Component Hierarchies
Managing State and Complexity in React Component Hierarchies
Making Client Web Apps Accessible to the World
Using Node and Express to Build a Web App’s Back End
Storing App Data Persistently with MongoDB
Architecting Web APIs with Express and MongoDB
Authenticating Users
Securing API Routes
Testing and Documenting Web APIs
Implementing and Deploying SpeedScore with a Web API

APPENDIX A: Cloning a Speedscore Repository to a Local Repository
APPENDIX B: Team Web Development Project

ISBN: 9780323918848

Page Count: 420

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