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Full-Stack Web Development from the Ground Up

Principles, Practices, and Technologies

  • 1st Edition - July 17, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Christopher D Hundhausen
  • Language: English

Full-Stack Development from the Ground Up: Principles, Practices, and Technologies addresses the growing need for a comprehensive upper-division computer science textbook that prov… Read more

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Description

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

Readership

Upper level undergraduate computer science and software engineering students taking a course on full-stack web development

Table of contents

Preface

  1. Welcome to Full Stack Web Development
  2. The Front-End Code Behind a Single Page Web App
  3. Creating a Single-Page Web App Framework in HTML and CSS: Semantic HTML and ARIA Roles
  4. Creating a Single-Page Web App Framework in HTML and CSS: Part II
  5. Bringing a Single-Page Web App to Life with JavaScript: Event Handling and Menus
  6. Bringing a Single-Page Web App to Life with JavaScript: Tabs and Modal Dialogs
  7. Automated Testing of Client-Side Web Apps
  8. Obtaining and Validating User Data with HTML Forms
  9. Using HTML Forms: An Advanced Example
  10. Saving User Data in Local Storage
  11. Working with Data in Tables
  12. Welcome to React
  13. Transitioning to the Create React App Framework
  14. Using Web APIs to Obtain App Data and Enhance Functionality
  15. Architecting React Component Hierarchies
  16. Managing State and Complexity in React Component Hierarchies
  17. Making Client Web Apps Accessible to the World
  18. Using Node and Express to Build a Web App’s Back End
  19. Storing App Data Persistently with MongoDB
  20. Architecting Web APIs with Express and MongoDB
  21. Authenticating Users
  22. Securing API Routes
  23. Testing and Documenting Web APIs
  24. Implementing and Deploying SpeedScore with a Web API

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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 17, 2026
  • Language: English

About the author

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Christopher D Hundhausen

Recipient of both a Fulbright Grant and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Christopher Hundhausen was the founder and director of the Human-centered Environments for Learning and Programming (HELP) Lab at Washington State University. He is Professor of computer science and Associate Head for Online Programs in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. His research applies the methods of human-computer interaction to the design and empirical evaluation of software environments and pedagogical approaches to improve learning and retention in undergraduate computer science and engineering education. Dr. Hundhausen has established himself as an international leader in the field of algorithm visualization, which explores technology and pedagogical approaches that enhance human understanding of computer algorithms.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Computer science, Associate Head for Online Programs, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University.