HTML Architecture, a Novel Development System (HANDS): An Approach for Web Development

In this paper, a very compelling proposition is presented, a novel approach for web development that is a hybrid of Single Page Applications (SPA) and server side applications. The proposed architecture lowers the entry to web development by providing a simplistic approach for development. The focus is on HTML, Java Script, Cascading Style Sheets, and Node.js. The architecture provides all the components required for students to start developing web applications and web services. The HTML Architecture, a Novel Development System (HANDS) is a hybrid approach leveraging the simplicity of plain old HTML pages, the AJAX injection of HTML from SPA frameworks, and the server side processing found in the Node.js framework. An open source starter kit and examples are provided.