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WebStorm Essentials

By : Stefan Rosca, Den Patin
Book Image

WebStorm Essentials

By: Stefan Rosca, Den Patin

Overview of this book

<p>JetBrains WebStorm is a commercial and powerful IDE, perfectly equipped for complex client-side development and server-side development with Node.js. It provides first-class support for JavaScript, Node.js, HTML, and CSS. WebStorm is the number one choice for developing web applications due to its advanced features and integration with a plethora of topical technologies such as Meteor and Gulp.</p> <p>This book will be your companion in building high-quality web applications using WebStorm, taking advantage of the newest features of Webstorm 10.</p> <p>You will start with an introduction to the latest features of WebStorm and its interface, followed by learning how to set up a new project with the help of templates. You will then build a web application using AngularJS, ReactJs, Node.js, Express, and Meteor. This book will also show you how to use pioneering HTML5 technologies in mobile application development and package managers, as well as how to build automation tools for your application. Finally, you will discover how to perform debugging, tracing, profiling, and code style checking activities directly in WebStorm, followed by testing your application inside WebStorm, using some of the most popular testing libraries out there.</p> <p>By the end of this book, you will have a solid understanding of how to develop powerful web applications quickly and easily with WebStorm.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
WebStorm Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
AngularJS, React, Express, and Meteor – Developing Your Web Application
Index

Cordova


 

Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript

 
 --https://cordova.apache.org/

Cordova is a set of JavaScript APIs that allows access to the native functions of the device such as the accelerometer, camera, or geolocation.

The developer, while writing an app with Apache Cordova, uses web technologies that are packaged using the SDK platform as the native apps. At their core, the apps use HTML5 and CSS3 for the rendering part and JavaScript for the logic.

Before we start building applications with this framework, we need to install it. To do that, we need to run the following command in a terminal window:

npm install -g cordova

The preceding command installs Apache Cordova globally, so it will be available for all future projects. Once the installation is complete, we will have to restart WebStorm so that it detects the newly installed framework.

Now select New Project from either the welcome screen or the File menu. Select PhoneGap...