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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

Designing user interface


When the application starts, all the requests (except requests for resources) will be distributed to the function View.page, which displays the chat page on the browser. Let's take a look at the view part; we define a module named View in view.opa.

import stdlib.themes.bootstrap.css
module View {
  function page(){
    user = Random.string(8)
    <div id=#title class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top">
      <div class=navbar-inner>
        <div id=#logo /> 
      </div>
    </div>
    <div id=#conversation class=container-fluid
      onready={function(_){Model.join(updatemsg)}} />
    <div id=#footer class="navbar navbar-fixed-bottom">
      <div class=input-append>
        <input type=text id=#entry class=input-xxlarge
          onnewline={broadcast(user)}/>
        <button class="btn btn-primary" 
          onclick={broadcast(user)}>Post</button>
      </div>
    </div>
  }
  ....