Contributors

About the author

Lau Tiam Kok, aka Lau Thiam Kok, is a cross-disciplinary full stack web developer/designer and analyst. He was born in Penang, Malaysia. His studies include a Bachelor of Applied Arts degree at University Malaysia Sarawak (1996 - 1999), and an MSc in Digital Futures at the Institute of Digital Art and Technology, University of Plymouth, UK (2002 - 2003).

Lau has freelanced for more than 10 years for various inpiduals, institutions, and companies. He works with designers or independently, from designing layouts to coding the frontend and server-side programs to produce responsive websites. He also works collaboratively on air-quality monitoring projects for Citizen Sense (based in the United Kingdom), which uses R, openair, Shiny, MongoDB, RethinkDB, Express.js, Koa.js, Socket.IO and Nuxt.js for data analysis web apps and IoT data platforms.

I would like to thank Packt for giving me this opportunity to write this book, to share my knowledge, to reach a wider audience. I want to thank the editorial team for giving me the support, patience, and encouragement throughout the journey of writing this book. I want to thank the graphics team involved in the production of this book. Also, I want to thank the technical reviewers and external editors for improving this book tremendously, the authors of various sources that are used in this book. Last but not least, I want to thank my family and friends for supporting and loving me. Without any of these people in this journey of writing, this book would be impossible.

About the reviewer

Timi Omoyeni is an experienced frontend engineer who crafts responsive user interfaces that are cross-browser compatible. He uses Vue.js and Nuxt.js to build web applications and also writes technical articles on those technologies for Smashing Magazine and Log Rocket Blog.

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