John Papa interview on SPA (Single Page Applications)

SSW’s Adam Stephensen is joined by Microsoft MVP and Pluralsight Author John Papa to explore building great web user experiences with Single Page Applications.

They discuss the ASP.Net SPA Templates, Javascript libraries and the effects on application architecture.

Resources

John’s Blog
https://www.johnpapa.net/

John’s Pluralsight courses
https://pluralsight.com/training/Authors/Details/john-papa

Free Single Page Apps JumpStart – Pluralsight Module by John
https://www.asp.net/single-page-application/videos

Hot Towel SPA
https://www.johnpapa.net/hottowel/

Durandal
https://durandaljs.com/

Breeze
https://www.breezejs.com/

Knockout
https://knockoutjs.com/

Posts specifically mentioned in the interview
https://www.johnpapa.net/howmanyistoomany/
https://www.johnpapa.net/spajs02/
https://www.johnpapa.net/spajs03/

About the speakers

SPA Supremo

John Papa is a well-known Silverlight expert and is a former Sr Technical Evangelist for Microsoft on the Silverlight and Windows 8 client teams. John is a Microsoft Regional Director and author of 100+ articles and 10 books, specializes in professional application development with technologies including Windows, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Silverlight, WPF, C#, .NET and SQL Server.

He can often be found speaking around the world at keynotes and sessions for conferences such as Build, MIX, PDC, TechEd, VSLive and DevConnections. John was the host of the popular show Silverlight TV on Channel 9 and hosted many events including the MIXer and Open Source Fest at major conferences. He currently enjoys authoring courses for Pluralsight. You can always find John at JohnPapa.net or on twitter at @John_Papa.

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