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Opa Application Development

By : Li Wenbo
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Opa Application Development

By: Li Wenbo

Overview of this book

Opa is a full-stack Open Source web development framework for JavaScript that lets you write secure and scalable web applications. It generates standard Node.js/MongoDB applications, natively supports HTML5 and CSS and automates many aspects of modern web application programming. It handles all aspects of web programming written in one consistent language and compiled to web standards.Opa Application Development is a practical,hands-on guide that provides you with a number of step-by-step exercises. It covers almost all aspects of developing a web application with Opa, which will help you take advantage of the real power of Opa, as well as building a secure, powerful web application rapidly.Opa Application Development dives into all concepts and components required to build a web application with Opa. The first half of this book shows you all of the basic building blocks that you will need to develop an Opa application, including the syntax of Opa, web development aspects, client and server communication and slicing, plugin, database, and so on. By the end of the book you will have yourself created a complete web application along with a game: Pacman!
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Opa Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using widgets


There are some components that are commonly used in web application, such as alert information, drop-down buttons, button groups, and modal dialogs. Bootstrap has a great support for that, and you can create those widgets in Opa. Let's first take a look at how we create a drop-down button in Opa:

import stdlib.themes.bootstrap.css
function page(){
  <div class="btn-group" style="margin:10px">
    <a class="btn dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#">
      Action <span class="caret"></span>
    </a>
    <ul class="dropdown-menu">
      <li><a href="#">action1</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">action2</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">action3</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
}
Server.start(Server.http,[
  {resources: @static_resource_directory("resources")},
  {register: [{js: ["resources/bootstrap.min.js"]}] },
  {title:"Opa Packt", ~page}
])

Note that we use...