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Application that uses a web browser as a client

A web application is application software that is created with web technologies and runs via a web browser. Web applications emerged during the late 1990s and allowed the server to dynamically build a response to a request, in contrast to static web pages. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Web applicationA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Tree Visualization By One Table (tvBOT): a web application for visualizing, modifying and annotating phylogenetic treesInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: PatternsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Web application security engineeringCited 24 times
  5. Go sideways: Web frameworkA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Single-page applicationA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun A software application that is accessed via a web browser, often over a network but sometimes offline.

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. History
  2. Structure
  3. Security
  4. Development

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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