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JavaScript and JSON Essentials - Second Edition

By : Bruno Joseph D'mello, Sai S Sriparasa
Book Image

JavaScript and JSON Essentials - Second Edition

By: Bruno Joseph D'mello, Sai S Sriparasa

Overview of this book

JSON is an established and standard format used to exchange data. This book shows how JSON plays different roles in full web development through examples. By the end of this book, you'll have a new perspective on providing solutions for your applications and handling their complexities. After establishing a strong basic foundation with JSON, you'll learn to build frontend apps by creating a carousel. Next, you'll learn to implement JSON with Angular 5, Node.js, template embedding, and composer.json in PHP. This book will also help you implement Hapi.js (known for its JSON-configurable architecture) for server-side scripting. You'll learn to implement JSON for real-time apps using Kafka, as well as how to implement JSON for a task runner, and for MongoDB BSON storage. The book ends with some case studies on JSON formats to help you sharpen your creativity by exploring futuristic JSON implementations. By the end of the book, you'll be up and running with all the essential features of JSON and JavaScript and able to build fast, scalable, and efficient web applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Setting up the Carousel application


Let's begin by building a folder that will hold the files for this application. This application will need an HTML file that will hold the Carousel; it will need a few libraries such as jQuery and jQuery Cycle; we will have to import these libraries. We also need a JSON file that holds the data for this exercise. To download the jQuery file, please visit https://jquery.com. As we have already observed, jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library available to developers. There is a growing community of developers who make jQuery more popular by the day. We will be using the jQuery Cycle library to power our Carousel application. jQuery Cycle is one of the most popular and lightweight cycle libraries with numerous features such as responsive components, configuration-based interactivity for next, previous button, throttle speed, and so on. it can be downloaded from http://malsup.github.io/jquery.cycle.all.js directly. Rename the file to jquery.cycle.js...