Cross-platform application design provides an excellent starting point for mastering application development in this new book. You can introduce today's most popular technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, javascript, jQuery Mobile, Node.js, JSON, localStorage, sessionstorage, NoSQL using MongoDB, SQL using MySQL, templating using handlebars, and maps. An app-centric view emphasizes subsets of these technologies to guide students in developing non-trivial apps. The apps serve as models for numerous projects from various application domains, while detailed outlines present potential course projects.