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Mastering client development is essential to truly mastering the MVC Framework. The benefits of using the MVC pattern on the server-side are now well understood and have become hugely popular. However to fully reap the advantages of MVC you must also understand what is happening on the client-side.Modern client browsers are extremely feature rich and capable of doing a great deal of processing and communication work for your application. If used correctly, they will streamline your data and application workflows, making your code appear both faster and more responsive to your users. By using client-side processing you reduce the load on your servers and save both bandwidth and CPU costs.In this book best-selling .NET author, Adam Freeman, shows you how to craft the HTML, JavaScript and CSS elements of your application to make the client-side of your MVC applications as slick and responsive as the server-side code they compliment. Youll learn how to use JavaScript to maintain your applications user experience independently of the server, how SignalR can provide real-time updates and how the Azure Cloud provides push-notifications to any client device. Put together these techniques will speed your development times, create a rich and responsive interface and seamlessly integrate your client-side code with the MVC pattern you're employing on the server.Starting with the nuts-and-bolts you'll be shown everything you need to know from first-principals through to advanced features. goes in-depth to give you the knowledge you need. Each topic is covered clearly and concisely and is packed with the details you need to be truly effective.