Best Web Application Books

In computing, a web application or web application is a client-server computer program in which the client (including the user interface and client-side logic) is run in a web browser. Common web applications include webmail, online retail sales, online auctions, wikis, instant messaging services, and many other features.

Here is a list of online books on web applications in various formats available for free:

• Building Websites with Plone by Cameron Cooper (PDF)
• Building Web Apps with Go by Jeremy Saenz (HTML, ePub, MOBI & PDF)
• Creating Applications with Mozilla by Mozdev.org
• Developing Modern Mobile Web Apps by Microsoft Corporation (Mobi)
• Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application by gettingreal.37signals.com
• Google Web Toolkit and App Engine by Google
• Greasemonkey Hacks by Mark Pilgrim
• Introduction to Java and OOA/OOD for Web Applications (Alvin J. Alexander)
• Introduction to Web Applications Development by Carles Mateu
• Invision Power Board 2: A User Guide by David Mytton (PDF)
• Lift Cookbook by Richard Dallaway
• OWASP Guide to Building Secure Web Applications and Web Services (PDF, HTML)
• Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications by J.D. Meier, Carlos Farre, Prashant Bansode, Scott Barber and Dennis Rea (PDF, HTML)
• Pixel Perfect Precision Handbook v.3 by Matt Gypps (PDF & iBook)
• Pro Git 2nd Edition by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub (HTML, PDF, ePub & Mobi)
• Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services by Raymond Yee (PDF, HTML)
• Project Silk: Client-Side Web Development for Modern Browsers by Bob Brumfield, Geoff Cox, Nelly Delgado, Michael Puleio, Karl Shifflett, Don Smith and Dwayne Taylor (PDF, CHM, HTML)
• Rapid Application Development with Mozilla by Nigel McFarlane (PDF)
• RESTful Web Services [PDF, ePub, Kindle, Online] by Leonard Richardson and Sam Rub (PDF, ePUB, Mobi, HTML (Online), Daisy)
• Software Engineering for Internet Applications by Eve Andersson, Philip Greenspun, and Andrew Grumet (HTML)
• Simply Lift by David Pollak
• The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right by Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Adrian Holovaty (HTML)
• The Little Book Of Modern Frontend Tooling (HTML)
• The Zope Book by Amos Latteier, Michel Pelletier
• Using Moodle – Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System by Jason Cole, Helen Foster (PDF)
• Web Audio API by Boris Smus
• Web Application Security Guide by Jan Schejbal
• What’s New in Adobe AIR 3 by Joseph Labrecque (DAISY, ePub, Mobi, PDF)
• Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agents by Zeeshan-Ul-Hassan Usmani