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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

Introducing Bootstrap


Our Carousel application is working fluently. The only thing is that the applications look too subtle and non-intuitive. To help us add some look and feel characteristics to our application, Bootstrap comes to the rescue.

Bootstrap is a free and open-source frontend web framework for designing websites and web applications.

–en.wikipedia.org

All UI components such as tabs, modals, lists, and so on, which are required to complete the designing or GUI part of an application, are already contained in Bootstrap. The developer needs to tweak some elements and change the CSS properties to build a customized one. Let's implement Bootstrap in our Carousel applications.

Setting up Bootstrap

Bootstrap provides an easy way to set up its libraries for your application. Like any other third-party library, we can provide a content delivery network (CDN) link directly or can download the file.

Bootstrap also contains JavaScript links for user interface interactions and events, but in our...