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Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

By : Diego Argüelles Rojas, Erikson Murrugarra
Book Image

Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

By: Diego Argüelles Rojas, Erikson Murrugarra

Overview of this book

Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia begins with a review of basic JavaScript concepts and the structure of an Aurelia application generated with the Aurelia-CLI tool. You will learn how to create interesting and intuitive application using the Aurelia-Materialize plugin, which implements the material design approach. Once you fully configure a FIFA World Cup 2018 app, you'll start creating the initial components through TDD practices and then develop backend services to process and store all the user data. This book lets you explore the NoSQL model and implement it using one of the most popular NoSQL databases, MongoDB, with some exciting libraries to make the experience effortless. You'll also be able to add some advanced behavior to your components, from managing the lifecycle properly to using dynamic binding, field validations, and the custom service layer. You will integrate your application with Google OAuth Service and learn best practices to secure your applications. Furthermore, you'll write UI Testing scripts to create high-quality Aurelia Apps and explore the most used tools to run end-to-end tests. In the concluding chapters, you'll be able to deploy your application to the Cloud and Docker containers. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to create rich applications using best practices and modern approaches.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you learned how Aurelia is different from other popular frameworks; we compared Aurelia to ReactJS and Angular. We saw that Aurelia is more lightweight and has better performance, but the most important thing is that Aurelia is based on the ECMAScript 6 standard. So, instead of learning a framework, with Aurelia, you are learning an International Standard.

Also, we installed NodeJS and the NPM; these two open source technologies are extremely important, because Aurelia requires them in order to set our development environment and install our dependencies.

We explored the Aurelia command-line tool in detail, dived into its capabilities, and now you are familiar with it and are able to create, launch, test, and build your apps.

Finally, we talked about the example application we will build—an awesome FIFA World Cup single-page application. You also learned what an Aurelia component is and understood the way they split the view model and the template into two separate files that have to use the same filename with the .js and .html extensions, respectively.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to apply style and color to our application by installing and configuring the Google Material Design plugin in our app. Enjoy the next chapter!