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Mastering OpenLayers 3

By : Gábor Farkas
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Mastering OpenLayers 3

By: Gábor Farkas

Overview of this book

OpenLayers 3 allows you to create stunning web mapping and WebGIS applications. It uses modern, cutting edge browser technologies. It is written with Closure Library, enabling you to build browser-independent applications without painful debugging ceremonies, which even have some limited fallback options for older browsers. With this guide, you will be introduced to the world of advanced web mapping and WebGIS. First, you will be introduced to the advanced features and functionalities available in OpenLayers 3. Next, you will be taken through the key points of creating custom applications with OpenLayers 3. You will then learn how to create the web mapping application of yours (or your company's) dream with this open source, expense-free, yet very powerful library. We’ll also show you how to make amazing looking thematic maps and create great effects with canvas manipulation. By the end of this book, you will have a strong command of web mapping and will be well on your way to creating amazing applications using OpenLayers 3.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering OpenLayers 3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Compiling Custom Builds with Closure

Welcome to the last chapter of Mastering OpenLayers 3. In your journey to master this library, you became familiar with quite a lot of concepts of OpenLayers 3. Until now, we used a full build of the library for our various purposes. This is good for learning, but it's not very effective in cases where we'd like to deploy an application. In most of cases, you will only need a small subset of the library's capabilities. To have a firm grip on the required subset, you will learn how to compile a custom build with Closure Compiler. You will also learn a few tricks to minimize your application even better and create documentation.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Building OpenLayers 3 with only a subset of features

  • Bundling an application with OpenLayers 3

  • Extending OpenLayers 3

  • Creating a rich API documentation automatically with JSDoc