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NW.js Essentials

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NW.js Essentials

Overview of this book

If you are an experienced Node.js developer who wants to create amazing desktop applications using NW.js, this is the book for you. Prior knowledge of HTML5, jQuery, and CSS is assumed.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Index

The application layer


The application layer is all the logic related to the functioning of the ToDO list application. In this first step, we will indeed create a full, working application, but we will do this much like we would do with a normal web page (except for the availability of Node.js modules). Before writing even a single line of code, let's see which features will implement the application layer:

  • Load all the to-dos from the database on start

  • Add a new to-do when clicking on a given button

  • Each to-do item in the DOM will provide a way to the following:

    • Set the to-do status (completed/uncompleted) and save

    • Edit the to-do content and save

    • Delete the to-do

There is then a set of features that will be triggered by the NativeUI layer but will result in an action inside the application layer:

  • Show/hide completed to-dos

  • Change the to-do list background color

  • Sync the local database with the remote one

  • Export the to-do list in the JSON format

Once you've understood what the application will do, we...