Apps for SharePoint and modern web applications

  In a previous post I mentioned  a couple of improvements that the new "apps for SharePoint" model brings for the wider web development community. After developing a couple of web applications using this model I want to elaborate on the new technologies and practices that it made possible.

SharePoint 2013 supports open source / non-Microsoft platforms

    At this point in time (early 2013) almost all the Microsoft web frameworks and libraries are distributed as open source software: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web Api, Entity Framework, Reactive Extensions, SignalR. You can contribute back to the original source or you can fork it and start developing and distributing your own flavour.
If you are a .NET web developer you are now using an open source development stack.