Web Applications (2024/2025)

Material for the course Web Applications (in English) for the Master Degree in Cybersecurity at Politecnico di Torino.

Slides

• Introduction to the course
• Software installation instructions

Javascript

• JavaScript Basics
• JavaScript Objects and Functions
• JavaScript Callbacks and Functional Programming
• JavaScript Package for dates
• JavaScript this Keyword
• JavaScript Libraries and Packages
• JavaScript Asynchronous Programming
• JavaScript Modules

Web Servers and server-side APIs

• Web architecture
• Express.js
• HTTP APIs
• ...

Browsers and client-side applications

• Introduction to modern browsers
• Modern HTML
• Modern CSS, Flex, Bootstrap
• JS in the browser: DOM, forms, events
• JS browser security: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
• Fetch API

React

• React introduction
• React elements and JSX
• React state
• React forms
• React context
• React router
• ...

Exercises and examples in class

• Exercises and examples developed in the classroom

Laboratories (solutions here)

• Lab 1: Getting Started with Node.js
• Lab 2: Node.js with database
• Lab 3: Express and APIs
• Lab 4: API security
• Lab 5: HTML, CSS
• Lab 6: JS in browser
• Lab 7: Restructure app using React
• Lab 8: React state
• Lab 9: React forms
• Lab 10: React router
• ...