Today whatsapp have launched an online/web version of their overly popular smartphone messaging app.
I was very much interested in seeing the architecture of this app because as far as i knew, they never stored messages on their server but all the data was only stored in users phone. So I started to look under the hood of the webapp and what I saw was a beauty.
First let me list down the frameworks they have used in creating this app:
React.js : A JAVASCRIPT LIBRARY FOR BUILDING USER INTERFACES from Facebook.
Underscore.js : Unerscore is a JavaScript library that provides a whole mess of useful functional programming helpers without extending any built-in objects. It’s the answer to the question: “If I sit down in front of a blank HTML page, and want to start being productive immediately, what do I need?” … and the tie to go along with jQuery's tux and Backbone's suspenders.
Velocity.js : Velocity is an animation engine with the same API as jQuery's $.animate(). It works wit…
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