Best Web Application Books
In computing, a web application or web app is a client–server computer program in which the client (including the user interface and client-side logic) runs in a web browser. Common web applications include webmail, online retail sales, online auctions, wikis, instant messaging services and many other functions.
Here is a list of online books about Web application in various formats available for free :
- Building Web Apps with Go by Jeremy Saenz (HTML, ePub, MOBI & PDF)
- Building Websites with Plone by Cameron Cooper (PDF)
- Creating Applications with Mozilla by Mozdev.org
- Developing Modern Mobile Web Apps by Microsoft Corporation (Mobi)
- Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application by gettingreal.37signals.com
- Google Web Toolkit and App Engine by Google
- Greasemonkey Hacks by Mark Pilgrim
- Introduction to Java and OOA/OOD for Web Applications (Alvin J. Alexander)
- Introduction to Web Applications Development by Carles Mateu
- Invision Power Board 2: A User Guide by David Mytton (PDF)
- Lift Cookbook by Richard Dallaway
- OWASP Guide to Building Secure Web Applications and Web Services (PDF, HTML)
- Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications by J.D. Meier, Carlos Farre, Prashant Bansode, Scott Barber and Dennis Rea (PDF, HTML)
- Pixel Perfect Precision Handbook v.3 by Matt Gypps (PDF & iBook)
- Pro Git 2nd Edition by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub (HTML, PDF, ePub & Mobi)
- Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services by Raymond Yee (PDF, HTML)
- Project Silk: Client-Side Web Development for Modern Browsers by Bob Brumfield, Geoff Cox, Nelly Delgado, Michael Puleio, Karl Shifflett, Don Smith and Dwayne Taylor (PDF, CHM, HTML)
- Rapid Application Development with Mozilla by Nigel McFarlane (PDF)
- RESTful Web Services [PDF, ePub, Kindle, Online] by Leonard Richardson and Sam Rub (PDF, ePUB, Mobi, HTML (Online), Daisy)
- Simply Lift by David Pollak
- Software Engineering for Internet Applications by Eve Andersson, Philip Greenspun, and Andrew Grumet (HTML)
- The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right by Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Adrian Holovaty (HTML)
- The Little Book Of Modern Frontend Tooling (HTML)
- The Zope Book by Amos Latteier, Michel Pelletier
- Using Moodle – Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System by Jason Cole, Helen Foster (PDF)
- Web Application Security Guide by Jan Schejbal
- Web Audio API by Boris Smus
- Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agents by Zeeshan-Ul-Hassan Usmani
- What’s New in Adobe AIR 3 by Joseph Labrecque (DAISY, ePub, Mobi, PDF)
